Sharing between computers

I have a problem with Sharing with my MacBook Pro. I originally set up sharing between my iMac and my MacBook. Until just over a month ago everything worked well.
Now I cannot get them to ‘talk’ even though my iMac recognizes that the MBP exists and tries to share but the MBP does not even ‘see’ the iMac.
I can see that others have had similar problems but none of the proposed solutions for those problems that I have tried have worked (so far) and even the Genius service in the Mac store in Las Vegas has drawn a blank. Has anyone a suggestion as to what might have gone wrong?
DAW

Had a feeling that might have been the case but didn't want to post an over-long initial request. Here goes:
My MBP is running version OS X 10.5.8 but I can't recall exactly what my iMac's is (I am away from home) both both computers are only a year old have latest software updates loaded.
I use it at home with a wireless router for to allow the two computers to link to the internet and if I am away from the iMac it provides me an with the ability to access my files.
The fault gradually appeared from some month or so ago as the MacBook Pro became reluctant to share with the iMac (until then it had worked superbly). It often required a couple of of attempts before linking up; however, if I was working on the iMac, I could link it to the MBP with no problems. Gradually the ability to link ether way became more problematic until neither would link to the other (although occasionally I could ‘Screen Share’ the MBP on the iMac). Also the MBP did not recognize the existence of any potentially shareable computers and finally even the ‘Shared’ label in the Finder menu disappeared.
I am now visiting my son and have found our Macs cannot see each other either. However, his Time Capsule does appear as a Share option on my Finder menu.
More curious is that when I visited the local Apple Store to try and resolve the problem, my machine could see all the other Computers in the store and the experts their could find no errors with my Sharing options in System Preferences.
As I type I have my son's TC shared but can see neither of his computers even though they are on, in use and they can see each other!

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