Home share won't load library

I have two PC's. One has all of my music and is running Vista. One has no music and is running Windows 7. I set up Home Share and it worked great for about a week. Now I can't get the libary to load on the second PC. I can see the library, but when I click on it it says "loading" for 10-15 seconds then acts like nothing ever happened. I've tried opening ports on both computers. The most frustrating part is when I'm on the Vista PC I can load the library for the Seven PC, which is empty, but when I'm on the Seven PC I can't load the library from the Vista PC, which is where all the music is.

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