Simple way of connecting to windows machine

I had tiger and by clicking on network could see and connect to my windows PC wirelessly. Now when I click on my network the macbook does not find anything even although nothing has changed on my setup except I am now using Leopard.
On Leopard I don't seem to be able to do this. I have had a look at the other posts but get a bit lost with what some people are saying, is there a simple guide on how to fix this problem?

System Preferences > Network > whatever connection type (Ethernet Connected) > Advance (button) > WINS (tab) > MSHOME (or whatever the name of the workgroup is)
the xp box showed up in the finder. i clicked on it and the shares showed up in the window.
cool.
on the xp box, i should have done the above first, but, anyway, on the xp box, i deleted all my network places. i then "set up a home or small office network." using the network setup wizard.

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