G5/10.4 not seeing MBP anymore...

Hi there,
I had things all set up perfectly... today the G5 can't see the MBP.
I have a wireless network. Internal airport cards on both computers, and a Buffalo wireless router (provided by my husband's employer). The G5 is also hardwired to the router.
The G5 runs OS 10.4.11. The MBP runs OS 10.5.8.
I have noticed that, on the G5, when I go to the Go menu at the top, and click on network I don't get a new finder window as expected. A couple times it flashed up there quickly and then disappeared...
I have not changed a thing on either machine. My husband's (windows-based) laptop successfully connected to the internet this morning, and the two Macs have both been out to the internet too.
I'm very new to this. Any thoughts/direction will be appreciated.
Thanks--D
Message was edited by: Dina

Great news, thanks!
Why does that happen, do you know?
I believe it's because during booting up, it's trying some Networking connections before the Interface is totally initialized & ready... one of the drawbacks of an OS that can do/run many things at once.

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