Satellite A300-1OM - Media sharing with XBox 360

I'm having some real problems sharing my media with my Xbox 360 using my wireless home network.
I used to connect my 360 to the internet via internet sharing with my laptop connected via Ethernet. I am now borrowing a wireless adaptor for the 360 which still allows me to connect to the internet on the 360, but I can no longer access my laptops music library or find a Windows Media Centre PC when searching the network on my 360.
My laptop is running Windows 7 64bit. When I view "network" my own laptop appears, my second laptop connected to the network is also shown and the 360 is also shown under media devices. Under "Media Streaming Options" my 360 is also listed and given full access to my laptop media.
When my laptop is connected directly to my 360 via Ethernet the music library and video library works fine, as does Windows Media Centre.
Does anybody know of any solutions to this issue? I'm assuming this is just going to be an issue with some settings on my laptop as opposed to an issue with my Xbox. Any advice much appreciated!

OK, agreed this may not be in the correct forum, but it may be a notebook problem so I thought I'd ask here where people with the most Toshiba knowledge would read it. Let's not lower this forum to the standards of discussing the choices of games consoles though :)
I risked all and turned off my firewall and all my protection software, still no progress though. It really doesn't make sense that my notebook even displays that there is a 360 on my network whilst it's connected to the network yet the 360 can't detect the computer when I ask it to search the network for one.

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