How well will OSX Tiger fair in a large 5,000 plus computer network?

Perhaps this fall I will be attending a seminary at a large christian university with 5,000 plus students. The university were I earned my BA only had about 1,000 total students, probably 700-800 of which lives on campus. So this will be a HUGE change for me.
The reason I ask is because when I was attending there I used Dave with my Performa 6360. Dave worked well as people could access me and I could easily access their shares. Some students dropped viruses on my open shared folders, but it was okay as they would not execute on my Mac. But would once copied via floppy to a PC.
Dave worked well in this 700-800 person student network.
I have to wonder if Tiger would work or crash in a 5,000 plus student network. But I have some questions.
1) Its obvious that I may need Dave for such a network as Tiger cannot easily access other shares. It appears that I need to know the ip address or WorkGroup to connect to other PC's in Tiger, and I cannot easily browse like I can with Dave. Is this accurate? My experience of Dave on my Performa was more than excellent.
2) Has Tiger killed AppleTalk? I'm sure in a 5,000 student network there will be plenty of students using older macs with a pre OS 9.x os. I'd like to be able to connect to them if they have open shares and them to me. At my last school my first year in 2002 there were about 10 students who had open appletalk shares. I was able to connect to them, and launch their apps. Can Tiger do the same?
3) My Windows laptop was able to connect to my Mac but my Windows CE palmtop was not when I had Dave Installed. Since using OSX both PC and Palmtop can connect to my Mac. Will Installing Dave cause Windows CE some havoc?
Yes i called Thursby and they did not know. But he assured me that if my Windows CE device could connect to Tiger it shoud connect with Dave installed. But I told him that it was unable to on my Performa, while my PC was. He said the issue was apples operating system.
Thanks,
John
Slight edit by an Apple Discussions Host

1) In Tiger you can browse the network using the Finder, in my experinence all workgroups appear, both Apple and Windows, and you can browse to a specific computer from there. You do not need to know specific IP addresses and WorkGroups, you can browse at your leisure.
2) My Tiger macs still talk to my PowerBook 5300 with OS 8 and vice-versa so I can only assume that AppleTalk is still active in Tiger.
3) Not sure.
I use my PowerBook G4 on a Windows based network of over 1000 computers on a regular basis. Not quite up to your scale, but it is not sluggish for me and works fine.
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