Mac OS 10.4 Network problems with windows

Hello.
After recently updating my powerful mac g4 to mac os 10.4 a lot of problems arose :
i cannot connect to windows shares anymore (smb server reports somekind of problem in the console)
2008-09-26 20:56:24.769 Finder[198] CFLog (22): Cannot find function pointer CIFSURLMounterFactory for factory 92D4EFEF-F5AA-11D5-A1EE-003065A0E6DE in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x5140de0 </System/Library/Filesystems/URLMount/smb.URLMounter> (bundle, not loaded)
of course, absolutely no error appears if i connect to a server, everything is neatly hidden in the console.
and, some kind of mdimportserver keeps on crashing every 10 to 15 seconds
Sep 26 21:05:04 statia3 crashdump[281]: mdimportserver crashed
Sep 26 21:05:05 statia3 crashdump[281]: crash report written to: /Users/andrei/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mdimportserver.crash.log
Sep 26 21:05:16 statia3 crashdump[283]: mdimportserver crashed
Sep 26 21:05:17 statia3 crashdump[283]: crash report written to: /Users/andrei/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mdimportserver.crash.log
I've spent HOURS studying these problems, looks like tiger has indeed something with windows and refuses to connect for some reason. I managed to obtain a connection in the terminal with smbclient but i cannot mount the remonte drive on the local system. NONE of the mentioned solutions don't work (keychanin resetting, restarting, software updates, etc.)
As for the mdimportserver well, it just slows my computer down.
Any Apple experts out there, please offer somekind of solution not necessarily to me but to ALL macintosh users out there that work in a windows dominated environment...

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