SMB Connections Not Showing Up in "SHARED"

Ever since I upgraded to 10.5, I have struggled with the SHARED section of my finder windows. In the past, when I went to the old "Network" section, it would show all of the Windows computers on our network to which I could connect with SMB. It would also show my NAS drive, which is sitting on an Ethernet router in my office.
Now, under SHARED, all I see is my drive. On some occasions, the Windows drives will show up, but I don't know why. I can connect to the computers typing in the SMB address, which sometimes causes them to be listed, but sometimes this causes my NAS drive to not be listed.
Any thoughts?

Apologies - the problem was that there are two user accounts on the source iMac and I had set iTunes on the wrong user account to Sharing on the network. All fine now.

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