Personal file sharing turns off by itself

Hey everyone. My Personal File Sharing keeps turning off on my Mac Pro when I try to access it from my PowerBook. I have tried repairing permissions on both computers and still no luck. Also tried locking the little padlock in the Preferences Control Panel and no luck. The computer name is one word with no spaces.
I did a search on this topic but found an archived post with no new suggestions. Any advice out there?
PowerBook G4 15 Titanium 1.5 GHz   Mac OS X (10.3.7)  

I'd try trashing on the one that changes...
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist
Then reboot and setup Sharing again.

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