SNMP Discovery of Windows machine

I'm trying to install and configure the Netbackup management pack, which ultimately requires that you discover the windows machine that runs the Netbackup NOM Console as an snmp discovered device.    (the netbackup pack is essentially a trap converter).  
My problem is that I cannot seem to discover the windows server using the snmp discovery wizard.   It just times out and says that the device was not discovered. I have discovered other SNMP devices, but this is the first time I've tried to discover a windows server via snmp.    Here's what I've tried and/or verified:
- SQL Broker is enabled
- SNMP service and snmp trap service are set to automatic start and are running
- SNMP community strings are all "public" with read/create on both the NOM machine and the management server. 
- "Accept traps from all hosts" is enabled.
- I've tried both snmp v1 and v2 discovery in the wizard
- I have verified that there is NO port blocking between the agent and MS.  (using the portqry utility).
- Ping responses are successful to/from both nodes and name resolution also works fine.
I've found several forum postings about snmp discovery and everything seems to be set correctly.
Any other bugs or known issues about discovering windows server via snmp?   anyone every successfully deploy the netbackup management pack?
Thanks
What Gives?  

John,
Couple things - I think since I posted this thread that Symantec has released a newer version of NOM and the Netbackup management pack that had a couple fixes.      The SNMP blocking issue was caused by the NOM Server service and I believe there was a configuration section in the NOM console that allows you to change NOM's snmp port so that the Windows SNMP service can use port 161.  
Even after making this change, I found that the Netbackup discovery views were not getting populated.   I found that the designated management server that the nom server was focused on was generating the following WMI error and I found that I had to add the default agent action account into the local administrators group of the NOM server.   This allowed the WMI queries to complete and allowed the discovery data to populate.     Other than this, we just defined the alerts in NOM that we wanted to be notified on and chose SNMP as the delivery mechanism - then the alerts showed up in SCOM.       Please note that the nom/scom integration components do no maintain state information - it's really just a basic SNMP trap forwarder.   So you will have to manually close any alerts that come from NOM into scom. 
Event Type:       Warning
Event Source:    Health Service Modules
Event Category: None
Event ID:           10401
Date:                7/30/2009
Time:                1:31:53 PM
User:                N/A
Computer:         SHR-SV0010
Description:
Module was unable to connect to namespace '\\NBU-PR-NOM-01\ROOT\CIMV2'

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