Networking with windows machines

I recently bought my MacBook and one for my wife. My only problem at the moment is that I cannot figure out how to "see" or find the windows computers on my office network.
Here in my main office I have an Airport express, where I've connected my laser printer. I've installed Bonjour on the Windows machines and all of us print fine. Obviously I connect fine to the internet through this connection. But nobody can find how to put files in my drop box, nor can I find how to put anything on theirs. In all there are about 12 Windows machines connected to the Express, a few wireless, but most wired through a switch with fixed IP's. Most are windows XP. 4 are Vista.
At home I connect fine through my time machine to my wife's Mac Air.

can you confirm what IP address your mac has in the network preferences.
Then goto a pc and check what ip address that has click on start, run, cmd press enter, in the dos window type ipconfig press enter
This will display the IP of the pc
the ip addresses should be on the same subnet eg they both start wit 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x etc
If that is the case then you are indeed on the same LAN.
Then try manually connecting to a pc, from the finder press command + K then enter the pc servers address eg
smb://192.x.x.x

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