Snow Leopard and Screen sharing question

I followed the information in this article to use screen sharing between 2 SL computers and I can make the basic SS work. However, two items from this article don't function as described. It is an older article and I'm asking to see how it still applies to Snow Leopard users.
http://www.macworld.com/article/131094/2007/12/screensharepower.html
One item that doesn't seem to work is Bonjour Browser window. Launching screen share doesn't automatically launch Bonjour Browser. This is a small incovenience but it means I launch BB manually then cut and paste a device address from BB to SS.
The second item is the terminal command to add additional items to the basic SS toolbar such as the button to capture the remote screen to a local file. I've tried it but the additional buttons don't appear. Are their other commans I could use to locally capture a screenshot from the remote machine to my computer?
Are either of these features compatible in Snow Leopard? If yes, how could I trouble shoot my setup to find out why an item isn't functining as described.
Thanks!

What did you do to make it work?
In my setup, I am facing pretty much all the issues I saw on the forum around screen sharing. So from a Snow Leopard iMAC:
1. I can't even get the black remote screen when trying to get access to another iMAC 10.6.1 system. In most of the case the connecting window stays on for about 1 min and than closes; the screen sharing application shows nothing connected. Once or twice I got a black remote screen and once I think it did work well. Tens of times it just did not connect. Console messages show errors with NetAuthAgent (even that file sharing and screen sharing are enabled on the remote Snow Leopard system and the file sharing was fine but connection is slower than with leopard).
2. I can connect to a Leopard system but takes almost a minute to connect. I can access Leopard regardless of the screen sharing options and I never get a black remote screen.
All systems are in a LAN. Before Snow Leopard upgrade the screen sharing connection was instant on all systems.

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