Home sharing for iTunes not working between my Windows 7 and Windows Vista?

I have a HP laptop with Windows 7 on it. The laptop has the latest edition of iTunes. My desktop computer has Windows Vista and iTunes 9. When I turn on home sharing, the library on my Windows 7 appears under 'Shared' on my vista. However, the library from my vista will NOT appear on my laptop.
I have turned the home sharing option on and off multiple times on both computers. I've also edited the preferences for the 'Sharing' option to make sure that both libraries can be seen and shared. Yet it still isn't working. I have even tried restarting my wireless router and it STILL is not working.
Is anyone else having a similar problem or know how to help?

In the course of your troubleshooting to date, have you also worked through the following document, Dea?
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