Mac OS 10.5.6 network discovery problems

Hello All!!
I have got a small network in my home. There is Two apple computers (one iMac wired to network another MacBook wireless), one Vista computer (wired) and two Vista laptops (wireless)
All the Windows based computers have no problems with seeing all the computers connected to network. But the apple computers got it different way.
Sometimes i am able to see all the computers connected (even the windows based ones:)
But most of the time i can see only the other mac (MacBook)
Of course manual connection trough "Go.. Connect to Server" is working fine with all the computers.
My question is: "Why my iMac and the other MacBook are have problems with seeing all the computers all the times? Why its only sometimes i can see them all in Finder?"
Thank you
Jacob

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