K Connect to server works, but Windows SHARED does not show in Finder

I hope this helps others:
My network has one Leopard and two Windows XP's, one of which would always show up within approximately 5 minutes in the Finder right column under SHARED, but the other never would. Both were accessible if I performed an K to smb://<ip address>. I finally found the difference and now both appear in SHARED.
On the Windows machine goto ControlPanel>NetworkConnections and right click for Properties on the connection being used in the network. In the Properties dialog select the Properties button for the 'Internet Protocol(TCP/IP)' line item. In the TCP/IP Properties under the General tab select 'Advanced' at the bottom of the dialog panel. Then select the WINS tab. Uncheck 'Enable LMHOSTS lookup' (this may have an adverse effect if your network relies on it) and check 'Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP'. If 'Default' is checked sharing worked fine between the Windows systems, but Leopard never listed the SHARED in Finder.
After making the change I restarted Windows and Leopard, and the Shares were finally listed in Finder.

I found that the WINS error was because /etc/smb.conf includes /var/db/smb.conf which has a 'wins support = no' line in it.
I also found that if I prevent Leopard from becoming the local master, Windows shares always appear in Finder within 5 minutes of the PC coming onto the network. To accomplish this I added the following to /etc/smb.conf:
os level = 0
local master = no
Note, the default smb.conf sets 'os level = 2'.
This from the Samba doc explains the 5 minutes:
+It is possible to configure two Samba servers to attempt to become the DMB for a domain. The first server that comes up will be the DMB. All other Samba servers will attempt to become the DMB every *5 minutes*. They will find that another Samba server is already the DMB and will fail. This provides automatic redundancy should the current DMB fail. The network bandwidth overhead of browser elections is relatively small, requiring approximately four UDP packets per machine per election. The maximum size of a UDP packet is 576 bytes.+
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