Leopard Server PPTP VPN and Airport, can connect VPN but not AFP/SMB/VNC

I have on several occasions enabled a PPTP VPN service on Leopard Server and forwarded the appropriate ports in my Airport Extreme with this result: Outside clients can connect to the Leopard Server, but trying to connect to the server with AFP, SMB, Screen sharing or Remote Desktop over this VPN just times out.
The VPN seems to be working OK, but after establishing the VPN I can't use it. The client (iMac with Mac OS X 10.5.3) gets an IP, DNS, Router etc. from the network's DHCP.
I have tried setting the server as default host with no effect.
Everything is running the latest available updates.
Is there any bug/problem with PPTP VPN passthrough an Airport Extreme on the Server side? Is there anything that needs to be configured other than forwarding port 1723 on the Airport?

I had a similar problem. Hope my solution can help you.
Check if the routers on both sides of the VPN connection use the same ip address style (ie. 10.0.0.x, 192.168.1.x). If they both use the same style then they conflict.
I have a Airport Extreme at home and was VPNing to a server behind a time capsule. Both were using the 10.0.0.x style IP. I switched my home IP style to 192.168.1.x and everything worked right away.

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