Personal File Sharing and Kernel Panic?

I used Personal File Sharing between my MacBook 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and my iMac G5 both with Mac OS 10.4.9 and within the same AirPort Extreme net. Now both computers no longer find the other server after I unplugged all computers and the AirPort basic station during a thunderstorm. The program MacSysInfo which I installed today found the following kernel panic. It seems to me that the time of the kernel panic is the time from which Persoanl File Sharing is no longer working. The connection to the printer within the same net still works for both computers. What can I do to solve the problem?
Sat May 26 18:53:22 2007
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A429B): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 0, Type 14=page fault), registers:
CR0: 0x80010033, CR2: 0x00000008, CR3: 0x00d6a000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x038f5640, EBX: 0x00000008, ECX: 0x03adbccc, EDX: 0x14023d68
CR2: 0x00000008, EBP: 0x14023cc8, ESI: 0x12871360, EDI: 0x03adbc08
EFL: 0x00010202, EIP: 0x0015abfa, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x14023aa8 : 0x128d08 (0x3cb134 0x14023acc 0x131de5 0x0)
0x14023ae8 : 0x1a429b (0x3d0e4c 0x0 0xe 0x3d0670)
0x14023bf8 : 0x19ada4 (0x14023c10 0x31dbe80 0x14023c68 0x190ef9)
0x14023cc8 : 0x15c7f4 (0x3adbc00 0x190 0xb3200000 0x0)
0x14023d88 : 0x160505 (0x3adbc00 0x265000 0x0 0x38d7110)
0x14023df8 : 0x160bd2 (0xb3200000 0x0 0x38d7110 0x265000)
0x14023f48 : 0x1a450e (0x300e490 0xb3200000 0x0 0x3)
0x14023fc8 : 0x19acd4 (0x25c6660 0x0 0x10 0x336cca0) No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbfffabd8
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.1: Thu Feb 22 20:55:00 PST 2007; root:xnu-792.18.15~1/RELEASE_I386

Thank you. I started to go through the hints but I am not through till now. I suppose I shall have to delete the hard disc and install the whole system new. But the time to do all the work will be not earlier than in two weeks.

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