MacPro not seen in XP's "my network places"

Hi,
I have a small business network made of 6 macs (from G3 to MacPro, all with OSX 10.4.9) and 1 PC with XP Pro.
All the Macs have Windows sharing enabled with WORKGROUP name.
My problem is that I can see every Mac in PC's "my network places/workgroup" except one, the MacPro. It is not seen under WORKGROUP in other Macs but it is in "My network".
It can see all the WORKGROUP members, PC included.
I wonder if this can be due to its Intel processor (the only one in this network, excepted the PC) or if I missed something ?
Any ideas ?
Thank's for help.
MacPro 2.66 Ghz   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

Don't have an IntelMac to try, but I think I'd try toggling the Firewall settings and Sharing Prefs on and off with a log out/in or two on that Mac... it can take up to 50 minutes for a Share to show up in XP also!
Second guess would be to trash...
/Users/nnnn/Library/Preferences/com.apple.internetconnect.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist (If AP is used)
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist
Then reboot and set up the prefs again.

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