IP address not showing in personal file sharing

I recently upgraded to Tiger (am running 10.4.6 on imac G5) and not sure if this started straight after upgrade, or since I had a hiccup with my wireless broadband connection and my mac started to run an airport configuration, which I stopped.
When I go to the services tab in sharing, instead of showing afp://192.~ under personal file sharing, it shows afp://my computer's name.home Also it now shows .home instead of .local, which is also not right. The same thing is also happening in windows sharing (which also shows .home instead of .local and no IP address). In the system profiler my domain name is shown as home. I don't know if this is the reason why it shows .home not .local. In the top of the sharing window, it shows my computer name as .local
I am able to connect to the net normally and can get my mac to see my pc laptop through wireless network. However if I put my IP address in safari, it says it can't connect to the server (may not be doing it right).
When I first noticed something was wrong, the server in the network pane was showing my computer name has changed from ------.local to unknown followed by my airport id.home. I have changed the computer name in my router settings to the correct name and now shows my computer's name.home. I also have a mystery folder called Bt suddenly appeared, which is showing a connection to a server called Thomson.
I know that once up a time everything was OK (definitely when running 10.3.9). I don't know if binning the com.apple.networkconfig.plist file would rectify things, but I have no idea as to how to put things right.
Any help would be gratefully received. Thanks

A few ideas/questions...
First suggestion is to get Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, boot holding down CMD+s, then when the prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
This will assure that the filesystem, Permissions, etc are OK, it'll clear caches nicely too.
Then get Little Snitch...
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
So we can make sure nothing is gong out that we don't want.
Do you anything about "Thomson"?
If it's files you wish to try to delete to fix, these are the frequent offenders...
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist
/Users/nnnnLibrary/Preferences/com.apple.internetconnect.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist
Reboot required, and set up Sharing and Networks again.
Does...
http://127.0.0.1
Get you to your machine's Web page?

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