Remote app, firewall issue?

I can't connect my iphone with my computer using the Remote app. I've tried all the help I can find, and it is not working. Here is my issue.
When I go to connect the "remote" app with my computer, it says that it can't connect due to either my wifi network or my firewall. I can tell you know that it is my firewall. I'm using the same wifi network for both the computer and the iphone, I have also check the IP addresses, they are the same. And it is strickly my computer, both me and my girlfriend have laptops, and it will work on her computer, and not mine (they are both connected on the same wifi network). So next would be to check my firewall settings...In firewall settings the "don't allow exceptions" box is NOT checked. Under the "exceptions" tab, the following boxes are checked: "Bonjour", "iTunes", "Remote Assistance", "File and printer sharing", Network diagonstics for windows XP", and "windows messenger".
I'm not understanding what the issue is. My iphone will show up under devices and allow me to enter the 4-digit code to connect each other, but after that it says that it is my firewall or network. Hope you can help, thanks.

Out of curiosity, I did some logging of my network to see what communication took place between my iPhone and iTunes:
When I turned on my iPhone, there were a 2 of packets on port 5353 (Bonjour) sent by iPhone, sent to 224.0.0.251 (mDNS).
When I fired up the Remote app, there were a 14 more packets on port 5353 sent by iPhone to 224.0.0.251, with a little more info in it. At this point, iTunes on my PC recognized the iPhone and prompted me for the PIN.
When I entered in the PIN, it looks like iTunes opens connection to iPhone in order to validate the PIN number, originating the conversation from a port number of its choosing, and using a destination port number that the iPhone advertised in it's last Bonjour packet. There were a dozen packets involved in this little handshake, originated by the PC.
Finally, the iPhone initiates a communication to iTunes on the PC, opening a connection to port 3689 on the computer. It looks like this is where the bulk of the "remote" app functions.
All this tells me that if you saw the screen to enter the PIN, then your PC successfully noticed the Bonjour advertisement the iPhone broadcasted on UDP port 5353. But the fact that it ceased to communicate after the PIN was entered tells me that most likely there is a problem with the PC accepting communications on TCP port 3689 (iTunes sharing). I guess it's possible that the firewall is preventing the computer from confirming the PIN with the iPhone, but that's a communication originated by iTunes, and usually firewalls are fairly permissive about what ports apps open going out, just really strict about what ports it accepts communications into.

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