Reseting File Sharing Preferences for admin account

Hello:
Was recently trying to network my macbook with my brothers Vista laptop.
Followed a few websites, could get his pc to access my mac but couldn't access the PC.
At any rate -- now I have been getting a lot of permission errors on my macbook.
I repaired permissions via disk utility. Still -- some folders are randomly loading up as read-only and I have to change them to read/write in getinfo.
Is there anyway to reset my sharing preference pane? Or at the very least stop the random permission errors.
Haven't had an OS issue prior to this.
thanks.

Chr,
why not use a Group Policy?
Shaun Pond
newly reminted as a Knowledge Partner

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