Networked Vista computers not appearing automatically in Finder

Hello,
I am having a hard time getting any of my networked Vista machines to show up in the left column of the finder menu. I can access the Leopard's public folder from any of the Vista machines, and I can access any of the Vista machines through smb://"computer name" or smb://ip - they're just not automatically showing up in finder.
I have all the computers on the same workgroup (including the Mac), and I have network discovery, public folder / file sharing, and printer sharing enabled on everything (including the Mac). I have turned the Vista firewall off completely and even changed inbound / outbound permissions in the advanced menu, but nothing makes the computers appear automatically in the finder menu.
I found this article and, according to it, I've done everything correctly.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1277379
It seems I have come to the same conclusion they have:
+"7) So all of the above seems to be great, and you still don't see things in your finder.+
+Can you connect manually with option-k by BOTH IP address (smb://192.168.15.109) and hostname (smb://mastershake)?+
+If so, the issue is with browsing only. If you can do both of the above (IP AND NetBIOS name) and you still cannot see entries in Network, there may be a real bug. I've noticed that Vista machines (with Network Discovery enabled) don't always show up correctly, while XP systems show up every time."+
What do you guys think?
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Called Applecare,
My issue went all the way up to an "Apple Engineer."
They told me 10.5 does not actively search for SMB shares.
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