Mini stopped recognizing the home network

I have an intel mini 1.42GHz with 1G memory, a G4 Quicksilver, 733MHz, and a 1 GHz G4 iBook. The mini and the quicksilver are on a wired network and the ibook is on an airport network, and I also sometimes use an ethernet cable connection with it as well.
Recently, the mini and the quicksilver have stopped recognizing the network. I can still get internet, via DSL, which is distributed throught the network, but I can't connect the computers to each other via the wired network, like if I want to transfer files between them. I can connect to the mini only via airport from the ibook, but not to the quicksilver (it doesn't even show up in the list) and I can't connect to the ibook from the mini. The ibook will not connect to the mini via the ethernet wire.
Personal file sharing is checked on in the system prefs. I don't know of anything that has changed recently with the setup, except that I recently upgraded iLife on the mini. Any suggestions?
The mini runs 10.4.11, the ibook and the quicksilver run 10.3.9.

I tried to reply to this awhile back, then was out of town, then was busy (as always...)
Anyway...
I don't know why, but it started working this morning. I think you're right about my network setup. DSL comes in from the phone line, goes to a router, and is then directed to the mini, the QS, the ibook, a network printer, a wireless router, and a PC.
I tried pinging the ibook and the QS from the mini this morning and it worked fine. I was able to connect to the other computers OK. The only think I did last night is that I had to do a ctrl-cmd-power switch restart after the ibook locked up when trying to connect to one of the other systems.
I also notice that the QS doesn't show up in the Network list if it's gone to to the screen saver, but the mini does. Another strange thing (that I don't think is new) is that there are two entries for the mini in the ibook's and QS's list of systems. One is called "SKS Mini" and seems to be the one that works. The other one is called "SKS-MINI". If I try to connect to that one, I get a window titled "SMB/CIFS Filesystem Authentication." It also seems to go to the mini, but I'm not sure why there is this extra entry here.
Thanks for the help.
Anon, y'all

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