Sharing library on local network not showing on all computers

I am unable to see my shared music folder in iTunes for the music on the home server on a local network from my laptop. It shows fine on my wife's laptop but not on mine. I can't see the remote speakers either. All the settings in iTunes are correct for sharing and for look for shared music and I have access to the files on the network from my laptop when I browse network places. When I first installed it worked fine on my machine but then it stopped. I can't figure out why. I also tried with the firewall off but did not help either.
Any ideas why it would stop working, but still work on other PCs on the network. I have a total of 3 pcs on the network plus the server.

I have the same problem with a new laptop running Vista. All three of my XP computers that run ITunes can see the shared network drive on my server. ITunes on the Vista computer doesn't see any shared network folders, even though I can open them in Vista. Even tried a shortcut the network folder on the desktop. Zip. I've seen dozens of posts about this problem and no answers from Apple... and people complain about Microsoft software... sigh.

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