Problem networking with windows PCs

I'm trying to share my "public" folder with the Windows computers on my network, so I start Windows Sharing, and then it tells me I have to enable at least one user to start windows sharing, so I enable my username, and put in my password. When I go to the windows machine, I create a new network place, etc. and browse for my computer. My mac is found, but it won't let me open it at all. When I right-click and hit "open", it asks me for my password, so I put it in, and now my entire home directory is available to everyone on the network (not good). I can't for the life of me figure out how to stop it from sharing EVERYTHING in my home directory. Even if I stop windows sharing and reconnect, it still remembers my password and shares my entire home directory. I realize that I signed in on the remote windows computer as myself, which was a mistake. How do I sign out??? Even when I "disconnect from server" on the PC, it doesn't actually disconnect. My second question is: How do I ONLY share my "public" folder? Every piece of documentation I've found on the subject says that by default it should ONLY share that folder, yet it shares EVERYTHING. It won't let me connect to my computer at all from the PC unless I put in my user password. Please help!!! Thanks!
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Thanks for your replies. I found a solution to my problem and it was indeed fixed by changing settings on the XP. It was related to sharing from a NTFS filesystem.
My problem was, I could ping the XP, even login with remote desktop, only I was unable to connect to shares. I saw the hostname in the network list, and if I connected it listed the shares, but after identification it always failed to find the alias. Trying via the command shell with smbclient showed me it gave a NTSTATUS_LOGONFAILURE.
If found this article Q304040 on the microsoft knowledge base :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304040/en-us
In my case switching the "Use Simple File Sharing" feature OFF solved the problem.
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