Remote disc will never mount

I have two iMacs (running OS X 10.4.11) in addition to my MBA which I received yesterday. I installed the remote disc sharing program on both iMacs and enabled the required sharing on them. Although I can see the superdrive contents on the iMacs (ie, if I put in a CD titled "stuff", I see "stuff" and the icon on the MBA in the finder), I cannot access any content on them. They all time out eventually with a message that says "The operation cannot be completed because the original item "stuff" cannot be found." (Stuff is just an example; for instance, I'd like to install my iWork family pack on the MBA and in its case the name is "iWork '08 Install CD".) Regular file shares work fine.
Suggestions? Workarounds? This is simply unacceptable; I'd tell anyone interested in an MBA to hold off until this works reliably.

I appreciate everyone's input, believe me. I discovered, as others apparently have, that if I turn off the firewall on the 'host' machine, then remote disc sharing will work. *This is not acceptable.* I'd no more turn off the firewalls on all the machines on my home network than I'd go to work without pants on. Apple simply must fix this. Parenthetically I note, if someone knows which firewall ports need to be unblocked I'd take a stab at doing that manually.
Oh and just to note, it's not about the disk type; "homemade" data disks (CD or DVD), Apple iWork Family pack disk, same results.

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