SMB File Sharing just stopped working

About 3-4 days ago I found I could not connect to my MacPro via ANY of my computers, Mac and PC alike. If I do a "+netstat -an | grep LIST+" I do see...
tcp4 0 0 *.139 . LISTEN
but if I do a "+lsof -nl | grep LIST+" all I get is...
GoogleDes 174 503 5u IPv4 0x7011e64 0t0 TCP 127.0.0.1:profilemac (LISTEN)
AppleVNCS 178 503 4u IPv6 0x5c66b2c 0t0 TCP *:vnc-server (LISTEN)
and don't see any other listening services. Perhaps the two most glaring items is that when I look in /private/var/log/log.smbd file I see this...
2008/07/20 18:48:47, 0, pid=13382 /SourceCache/samba/samba-187.7/samba/source/profile/profile.c:profile_setup(241 )
ERROR: we did not create the shmem (owned by another user, uid 503, gid 503)
2008/07/20 18:48:47, 0, pid=13382 /SourceCache/samba/samba-187.7/samba/source/smbd/server.c:main(915)
ERROR: failed to setup profiling
... and if I do "+launchctl start org.samba.smbd+" I get this...
launchctl start error: No such process
and if I do "+smbclient -L localhost+" I get this...
Receiving SMB: Server stopped responding
protocol negotiation failed
And yet under System Preferences->Sharing I have "File Sharing" checked, a shared folder set up and myself as the user with Read/Write privileges and under options SMB is checked and I have my name checked under "account". This is as it has been for months.
Obviously my Samba is "injured" and I've run out of ideas on how to fix it short of reinstalling my OS and NOBODY likes reinstalling their OS... nobody.
Anyone have any ideas on what might be going on or more importantly how to fix it? Nothing... absolutely nothing changed on my Mac side when this happened... hadn't even done a reboot in over three weeks.
I'm baffled.
TIA

I had the same issue,
[2008/12/29 17:32:03, 0, pid=20851] /SourceCache/samba/samba-187.8/samba/source/profile/profile.c:profile_setup(241 )
ERROR: we did not create the shmem (owned by another user, uid 501, gid 501)
[2008/12/29 17:32:03, 0, pid=20851] /SourceCache/samba/samba-187.8/samba/source/smbd/server.c:main(915)
ERROR: failed to setup profiling
From Terminal I ran
% ipcs -m
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP
Shared Memory:
m 65536 0x07021999 --rw-r--r-- langdt langdt
m 65537 0x60022006 --rw-r--r-- langdt langdt
I saw two shared memory entries owned by me (langdt uid 501), I assumed that smbd was trying to run as root and failing because the shared memory already existed. To remove the shared memory
% ipcrm -m 65536
% ipcrm -m 65537
Then smbd was able to start and create the shared memory that it required, rerunning ipcs I could see the shared memory now owned by 'root'.

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