Snow Leopard Losing Network Shares

Hi,
We have an iMac and MacPro, both running Snow Leopard. The MacPro shares two of its drives with the iMac, and the iMac is set to mount those at login.
With Leopard the drives always mounted fine and were available, but with Snow Leopard they aren't mounting and aren't visible when browsing the MacPro over the network. You can view and use the drives fine on the MacPro, but the iMac can't see them.
Only restarting the MacPro makes the drives available again, then everything is fine until the next day when the machines are powered up again (the iMac goes to sleep and the MacPro is shut down). The MacPro is set to always boot before the iMac wakes up to make sure the drives are available.
Any suggestions?

The best "solution" to visibility problems I have found is not to let the various machines sleep over the period visibility is needed.

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Thank you for your very detailed reply.
I understand the problems that can arise using 192.168.0.x and 192.168.1.x and if this were a new project I would definitely switch to something else, however in this case we have been using these ip ranges for years (they were in use here long before I started) and I don't want to have to redo all of my dns settings at the same time I make these other changes so I'm going to stick with the same ip's we are using at least for now. Anyone here needing vpn access has already dealt with this issue but we have very few vpn users so it has not been a major problem for us to date.
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