Sharing an external volume between 2 Macs

I have been having this problem since the first 10.5 install, and hoping it would get fixed w/ 10.5.2 but to no avail. Here is the short version -- I have 2 external volumes, one is a Time Machine drive and one is a media library - both on my iMac. I have a Macbook on the local network that can see the Time Machine Drive and other shared volumes (a pair of DMG images from the HD) w/out a problem. However, I can't get it to see a volume called "Video Library". Now, I have the iMac set up to do SMB sharing for a Windows PC. The Macbook sees the iMac as a native Mac, but also sees the iMac as a SMB share (mac001ba, etc.) So in the Finder Sidebar I have 2 listings for the iMac from the Macbook -- one as a Mac (w/ the custom icon), and one as the windows share. When I go to the windows share version, I can see that volume "Video Library", not just once but 4 times -- video library, video library-1, etc. and all are accessible, along w/ all other shares.
So, my question is - how do I get Leopard to "unstick" this volume and show it as a share. It is shared in "pref pane -> sharing", back to my mac is on, file sharing is on, I have permission to read&write on the volume, I am logged in as same user on both macs. Any thoughts?
As an aside, I did a clean install of leopard but this external drive carried over, I've struggled with the "unknown user" issue, and it still shows up when I share this volume, but I am at a loss. I am frustrated that Leopard is supposed to be so easy, and I've sort of patched this networking thing together 90% of the way, but I've got this one holdout volume that is obviously there but not being recognized by Leopard. ANY ideas?
Thanks.

It is one external drive, split into two volumes (one Time Machine, one Video Library), connected via FW800 to the iMac. The Macbook can "see" the Time Machine volume fine and regularly backs up to it over the local network. Additionally, there are two other volumes (disk images set up from the primary internal hard drive) that the Macbook sees fine. I'm thinking my problem has more to do with the fact that there are 4 volumes listed as SMB sharepoints via the "windows" share version of the iMac, like something is getting duplicated. This may be impossible to solve, and an annoyance I have to live with, or perhaps I should wipe the volume and start over from backups, but I feel like as long as the name is the same I'm going to have the same problem. And I don't want to rename the volume because all of the media on the library is linked in iTunes and if I rename all of my links break.

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