Cross platform networking issue

Okay, my group consists of about three dozen Macs (most on 10.3.9, but about half a dozen on 10.4.3) and we are hooked up to a Windows-based network which uses Extreme-Z IP to serve up the shared volumes to the Mac users. Recently, the corporate IT folk upgraded the network file servers. Now we can connect to the new servers via the "Connect to Server..." dialog, however, on most of the machines, the new file servers don't appear when browsing the network in a Finder window (on a few machines they do show up). At first I thought this must be a Tiger vs. Panther issue, but I quickly discovered that most of the Panther machines have the same trouble. Anybody got any ideas why this would be an issue on some machines but not others?
Thanks in advance.
Dual 2.0GHz G5 Powermac Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Here's an update: What I said in my first post was a little misleading. You can actually see the file servers from all the machines, but not in the way we used to be able to. Previously when browsing the network we could see the Appletalk zone as a folder on the network and all our file servers showed up in that folder. In addition to that, a folder called local would show up, and all our file servers would also appear in that. What I didn't realize is that folder exists on the Tiger machines as well, except it's called My Network. So we can browse to all the file servers that way (which I'm guessing represents Rendezvous?) but they don't show up on any machines in the Appletalk zone folder. My guess now is that this is an issue with the way the servers are configured. It's no longer a crucial issue (since everyone can get to the shares via the Local (or My Network) folder) but I would still like to know what's going on. Anybody got any insights?

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