Mac - Windows Project Sharing: Media Linking issues

I just got a Windows 7 machine to experiment with using both my old Mac Pro and Windows 7 CS 5.5 to work on the same project.
I am using the Mac Pro as a server, a bunch of fast drives are hooked up to it. Right now I'm using Mac 10.7.3 and sharing those drives via the SMB protocol. This has some issues, like sometimes Windows can't connect to the Mac, but if I reset the Mac's SMB sharing and reboot it seems to fix this (fingers crossed.)
The main issue is that Premiere Pro cannot find some files on the Mac Pro's SMB shares. I'm not sure how many it finds or doesn't or why it finds some and not others, but it first asks me to locate a file, which I tediously do, and then PPro churns a bit and then asks me for another one. I'm using a lot of AVCHD material, so in some cases the media files have the same name, such as "00000.MTS". Premiere Pro doesn't seem to be able to provide any information on the original path of the file it wants to find, though I am sure that path info is somewhere in the Project file. It just doesn't present it to me when it asks me to locate it.
This makes finding non-unique files pretty hard.
Have others encountered this issue and what was your solution? Is there a utility I can use on Windows 7 to allow it to see the Mac SMB shares in a way that it can interpret the paths seamlessly?
The good thing is that PPro Windows is finding most of the files after I point it to one or 2 files it can't find, so sometimes this is working, though mysteriously.
Thanks much for any advice!
-Keith

Thanks Jim, however I do believe that the Premiere Pro project contains enough metadata path information to find the files. For example I do similar things with FCP and it will provide the exact path to what it couldn't find, chosing to search within it's interface will eventually find the correct file. PPro (at least 5.5) doesn't present this interface. That is a PPro issue.
I also believe that camcorder manufacturers could help by allowing unique names for the AVCHD MTS files. I don't think there is really any limitation on this, it's just lack of understanding of workflow on the manufacturers' part. I need a solution now, I don't think writing letters to manufacturers is going to get me what I need right now.
As I say, for the most part, with very little work for me Premiere Pro somehow found many of the correct files, even though they had identical names. It somehow made that association. However, in how it interacts with the OS and how rigorously it searches drives is mysterious and possibly buggy. I'm looking either for a solution for Premiere Pro, or some utility or searching workflow that will help PPro find the finds it really does know about. I am sure that my lack of familiarity with how Windows does this on shares is part of my problem, I'm looking for real solutions that people have used, I'm sure many have been in the exact situation, either by taking a drive over to another windows edit machine or whatever, and they hopefully have worked it out.
Anybody been in my situation and what did you wind up doing?
Thanks much!
-Keith

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