Slow to connect to Mac share - file and screen

I have a few Macs on a network, with wired and wireless connections. I'm finding that I can connect to some of the machines quite quickly - from time that I click on the machine in the Shared area of the sidebar to when I see disks appear, or from when I click on screen sharing to something appearing, is fast. This is true for a PowerPC Mini running 10.5.x - takes 1 second for disks to appear.
At the same time, I have a MacBook Pro, 2.8 GHz, running 10.6.6, where it takes as much as 15 seconds for disks to appear or screen sharing to start. This happens with wired or wireless connections to the machine - I can be wired through a gigabit switch between that machine and another fast machine and still takes 10-15 seconds. This has been occurring for some time, and was present before and after the 10.6.6 patch.
Once I am copying data between machines, things seem to run quickly. So it seems mostly to be at the initial connection. If I go to sleep on a machine that is already connected to this MBP, wake up, then click on the MBP again, even though have mounted shares it still took 15 seconds to re-display the shares.
Any idea how I might diagnose and fix this?
Thanks,
Alex

There is no external drive on this machine - and I verified that the disk is awake. Not the issue.
The wired test was done between Macs on the same gigabit ether switch.
Another clue - I've found that when playing Starcraft 2 on this machine, this machine is the last to load vs others in multiplayer. I'm playing side by side with another machine on an older MacBook Pro, slightly slower, and that one always loads faster.

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