Network Shares stopped showing up in Finder

Hello,
My MBP has been working perfectly for over a year. Two or three days ogo it looks like the computer stopped seeing all network shares. Almost like nothing that should be seen with Bonjour is showing up. Printers, Time machine backup server (QNAP NAS), itunes libraries on other machines, etc. I can get to things by using their IP address so the network seems to be fine.
The firewall is completely turned off on the Mac and all the computers are connected over a single switch.
I tried deleting systempreferences and reinstalling the last combo update but neither solution worked. Running the latest version of Snow Leopard with all the latest updates.
The windows machines are having no trouble seeing each others iTunes libraries. When I start up iTunes on the windows boxes they briefly see the Mac iTunes library although it disappears from iTunes home sharing if i try to access it.
Would appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Chris

Completed a Time Machine backup to the last restore point which was before the issue and everything is looking good so far. I will install the latest updates and see if I can narrow down this issue if it happens again.
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If the Vista machine is the master browser, nothing will show in the sidebar, but if XP or a Mac is the master browser, then the sidebar will show shares. I don't have a way to verify this as I'm not sure how to force one machine to be a master browser over another. I'm suspicious if this will do anything as I've found other posts saying exactly the opposite scenario.
Is there anyone out there that has had a network, possibly with Airport Extreme, one Mac (Leopard), one Vista PC, and Vista share is showing in the Finder sidebar?

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The share auto-mounts when I am home but not on the desktop or in finder. I find it by looking at /Volumes/ in terminal. If I mount the share manually under /Volumes/ it shows as Games-1 and mounts on the desktop under Games.
Does anyone have any ideas on where I should be looking to find the offending process/file/daemon?
Thank you!
Trevor

thanks for the reply but are you sure about this? What difference would it make? Why 5 apps?
Even if it does work, which I doubt, at some point, I will have to resync ALL my apps again and surely the same thing will happen again, and I will be none the wiser. I still won't know which app it is. There must be a way of finding this out.
Any ideas?
What is really freaking me out is how it is connecting to my carrier (who is charging me) with Cellular data switched off.......?
Thanks again.

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I find no options in preferences that seem to be related. Everything is off in the Sharing tab. what am I missing?

Soulgazer,
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If you are downloading from another website, the behavior is controlled by a setting in your browser. For example, if you use Firefox, go to Options > Applications and make sure that the MP3s are set for "Always Ask." By doing this, the songs will be downloaded to your computer, but no action will be taked until you do something manually.

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I have a recent 13" MBPr and I installed Steam. For kicks, I told it to save the library on my 10.8 mac mini server. This worked well. It worked so well, I started up Parallels and did the same thing for my steam library on my boot camp partition. I closed Parallels and Steam then put my laptop to sleep. I was away from my home network and repeatedly received messages about not being able to access my server in a standard Finder pop-up. No big deal, I opened Steam to try and remove the library from my list. It was no longer listed.
Upon arriving home I opened steam and still could not find my share in the list. I removed Steam and all it's support files. Still on every boot I get the finder error about not being able to connect to my server. When I boot up my parallels boot camp VM I get the same Finder error. It pops up several (I never bothered to count) before it stops after I keep closing the pop-up.
I've looked at /etc/auto_master and /etc/auto_home, my login items, and I cannot find the process that keeps trying to mount the network share. When I am at my home and reboot my mac or boot parallels I do not receive the error. But I also do not see the mounted share on my desktop. I do see it when I perform the ls command on /Volumes. When I try and cd into it I get a Permission Denied error. Root/Wheel seems to own the mounted share. When I sudo the folder I see all the files stored on that volume.
Does anyone know how I can stop this from happening without resorting to creating a new user? I just got this one the way I like it (before I screwed it up with steam!)
Thanks for reading my short novel.

did the restore through itunes but to no avail.
Then you must have restored and installed your backup when requested. To remove those emails, you have to restore as new, i.e. without your backup, as roaminggnome suggested.

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The phone has been wiped.
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