Mac G5 Disappears on my home network

I have a annoying problem that I am struggling to solve
I have an old PowerMac G5 (1.6ghz PowerPC) running leopard, which has a huge hard disk so it is used as a dumping ground for everything digital. I wanted to be able to get this onto my home network so I could use it as a master iTunes collection, as well as being able to access files from my MacBook Pro (2.26 Ghz Intel)
My home network also has a Windows 7 PC which has a printer attached which I would like to be able to print over the network, but thats a different problem
My problem is this, the G5 didn't have a wireless card and can not be connected via Ethernet due to the distance it is from the router. So to get online I bought a dongle online....
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Plugged it in, followed the instructions which involved disabling all my network options (Firewire, Ethernet and Internal Modem) and using this USB Ethernet solely
This works a treat, and finally I have my old power horse online! Great, but the two macs (as well as the Windows PC) struggle to see each other - sometimes I can see the G5 on my Shared list, and have even managed to transfer files from one to the other. However to get this to work, I had to first open iTunes and enable home sharing. This at first worked perfectly, but now it just stops after about 5 mins, if it works at all. My MacBookPro is now showing up on the G5 in shared, but with the blue screen of death showing! So it thinks my MBP is a PC, wont see the PC at all and cant be found from my MBP at all
I dont know what to do to solve this problem, its annoying because it HAS worked, but then just stopped and now is temperamental at best, impossible most of the time. iTunes home share has to be restarted all the time, it wont see my iPhone as a remote at all (works perfectly on the Windows 7 PC... grrrr)
I dont know where to start to fix it really, all my sharing options are set to open and sharing on both Macs and I have restarted the router, Macs etc etc a million times hoping it would just 'work' like I expected it too!
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Bankos, and a warm welcome to the forums!
all my sharing options are set to open and sharing on both Macs..
In System Preferences>Security>Firewall tab, what are the settings there?
Mac G5 Disappears on my home network
See if maybe another Computer might have a Staic IP & is taking the G5 out of the picture.
Find IP on computers...
http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/communication/ethernet/office/winxp/2882/

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