File transfers from iMac to Windows Share on another computer. Very slow!

Hopefully someone has some ideas on how best to troubleshoot this.
I have an iMac and a Windows 2003 File Server.
The iMac sits on a gigabit switch with another computer, an XP machine and the 2003 File Server sits on another gigabit switch.
The problem I'm having is that transfers from the iMac to the 2003 File Server are very slow whereas from the XP machine on the same switch they are fast.
Any ideas on how to test this or how I might fix the problem?
The Network interface itself is set to:
1000baseT
full-duplex
MTU: standard (1500)
I've tried it with both full-duplex and full-duplex (flow control).
The directory I'm transfering is a 7.56gb directory and it's taking over an hour to transfer.
Thanks
Josh

This doesn't quite work at all. I can understand for OSX to be serving the files the need too change /etc/smb.conf, however, my OSX machine doesn't serve any files, thus the smb service is offline. I have tried adding that tag to my fileserver using samba (its a linux nas box) and it still is slow as ****. I know it works with tiger because one of my sisters is using a macbook on tiger and is able to connect wirelesssly to it and download files as fast as my MBP downloads through ethernet (mine is leopard). My other sister has the exact same configuratino of macbook, however hers is leopard like mine and it moves crazy slow. I know this is the reason why apple pedaled back about network drive time machine because they realized the broke something so I'm giving them the beneffit of the dooubt. If 10.5.2 rolls around and I don't see improvement I think i'll just go back to tiger...

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