HELP!  Leopard & XP Pro are not networking

Not sure why this is so hard to do!
Mac is running 10.5.2. PC is running XP Pro SP2. Both are wirelessly running off a Linksys router. The PC can open the shared files on the Mac. but the Mac can't open the XP shared files.
I tried using connect to server and typing smb://192.161.1.103 (this is the PC IP Address) but it fails and gives an error -36... I have tried everything that has been posted (inc making sure simple networking being off, enabling NetBios, creating a Home location instead of using Automatic, etc, etc)...
Then after 3 hours I tried connecting the wireless PC directly via ethernet. When I did that it opened another IP address at 104... so I tried to connect using connect to server and it did! I was able to copy files off the PC from my Mac (I almost started to cry!)
HOWEVER, This is not what I want to do... I need the PC to be wireless! When I disconnected the cable and rebooted the PC and tired to connected it failed (error -36).
Now what is funny is when I go to view workgroup computers on the PC it shows my Mac, but it doesn't show my PC network that I created (BTW both the Mac and PC network are using MSHOME)
I'm going crazy now trying to figure out why when I use setup a home or small office network on the PC, it doesn't show up! I'm sure this has something to do with why the Mac is not seeing the PC
Please Help!

Rodney,
To answer your questions.
Yes I have turned off the XP Firewall (It's using Norton Firewall. I also added my local network IP addresses on the trusted list, just in case). The file I'm trying to share is the default Windows Shared folder, and a folder on the root directory of the C drive. And yes the workgroup name is mshome

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