MacBook Connection to Home Network

I have my MacBook connecting to my wireless router pretty well, signal is always good and internet is fine. However, getting (and sometimes keeping) a network connection to my XP desktop is proving frustrating.
Accessing Finder>Network I sometimes only get Library and Servers, other times I'll find a folder for my home network as well as two other folders called 'My Network' and 'Workgroup'. I'm assuming these are default folders, because when I try to delete them I get an error message saying that I don't have sufficient privileges. If I don't, then who does?? I'm the only account on there and am obviously the administrator.
Also, I can access my XP shared files from the Mac (when I see the network) but when looking at My Network Places on XP I don't see the Mac under the workgroup computers. I get a SharedDocs folder for the Mac under 'The Internet' not under 'Local Network' and when I double-click it a dialog box says Connect to MacBook and asks me for a user name and password.
Which seems fair enough, except that any user name I give it gets an error message saying '\\MacBook\SharedDocs is not accessible' and 'The network path was not found'. I'm only using one password on OSX for admin functions and don't have a password set up for communications between machines. No combination of any user name or short name and password or none gets a connection.
Am I being really dim and overlooking something extremely simple here or has anyone else experienced this sort of issue?

Jay, we did use a USB SATA external HD case for the old HD, downloaded it to a special folder in Documents, but apparently, not all of the data was moved. We cannot find her data files (Excel, etc.). Also, when we look at the old drive as an external, we cannot see the data. The applications are there, but cannot find data. We even used Find to look for them, and nothing was found.
What is Migration Assistant? Is that part of the OS 10.6 applications menu? Or do we need to download it? Thanks for your advice and help.

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