Software Update Erratic

Hi All
I have been successfully running a standalone 10.4.10 OS X Server (Intel) on our PC-centric corporate network for some time. Software Update service was functioning fine. Recently, our network infrastructure was upgraded to greatly improve speed. Also, port security was implemented (one machine per hole in the wall - no switch boxes allowed). Come to think of it, our proxy server has also been upgraded fairly recently too. Since then, my Software Update service has been unreliable.I correctly downloads all the latest updates. However, when a Mac first downloads a new update the Software Updater displays something like
Update 123 downloading xxxMB of ----
where normally one would expect
Update 123 downloading xxxMB of 35MB
In other words, the local machine doesn't know the size of the update. After downloading the verification fails and the machine reports an error something like
"Error NSURLError Domain -1005 (-1005)"
and this goes on ad infinitum.
My first attempt at a fix was to throttle back the bandwidth available to software update at the XServer to an upper limit of 3MB/s. After doing this I still got the above problem (local machine didn't know how big the download was) and the associated error the first time I attempted to download a new download. However, at the second attempt, the downloads would invariably happen normally - although the latest iTunes (7.3.2?) update is unreliable on every Mac I try it on, sometime taking 5 or 6 attempts to download and install.
I see the same behaviour whichever of my two XServes I use for software update, and whichever Mac I attempt the updates on - ie this problem is not an XServe or Local Mac issue, but is related to the way our IT friends have set up the network.
Any suggestions how to overcome this flakey behaviour?
Thanks in advance
Dave Mitchell

Hi Tony
Thanks for taking the time to respond. I had read that article previously, though it is not clear to me that I am failing to meet these requirements. I am no expert and so would appreciate any thoughts.
The DNS registration/resolves correctly issue - prior to my network hardware update, all was fine. Currently, my clients find the XServe and access the updates - just not sensibly - unless I throttle things back.
Proxy - my Xserve is negotiating this fine and is downloading updates.
Servers and ports - as above.
Dedicated network connection to the internet - as above.
Thanks and regards
Dave Mitchell

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    2009-03-01 17:47:47.208 Skype[313] SkypeSound::setAudioDeviceUID: cannot find audio device with UID (null), trying to use default system output device instead
    Starting the process...
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    2009-03-01 17:48:36.367 Skype[313] MacVideo getDimensions rc == NO, width 0, height 0
    2009-03-01 17:48:37.367 Skype[313] MacVideo getDimensions rc == NO, width 0, height 0
    2009-03-01 17:48:37.369 Skype[313] MacVideo getDimensions rc == NO, width 0, height 0
    2009-03-01 17:59:16.450 Skype[313] SkypeSound::setAudioDeviceUID: cannot find audio device with UID (null), trying to use default system output device instead
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    Mar 1 17:59:20 Bs-Home-Mac crashdump[355]: crash report written to: /Users/bernardolima/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Skype.crash.log
    Mar 1 18:23:50 Bs-Home-Mac authexec: executing /Applications/Carbon Copy Cloner.app/Contents/Resources/helper_tool
    Mar 1 18:28:01 Bs-Home-Mac ntpd[191]: sendto(17.72.255.12): Bad file descriptor
    Main starting
    2009-03-01 18:41:03.154 Skype[393] SkypeApplication::init called
    2009-03-01 18:41:12.433 Skype[393] SKInitDebugLogging
    Mar 1 19:36:16 Bs-Home-Mac ntpd[191]: sendto(17.72.255.12): Bad file descriptor
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    Mar 1 19:57:12 Bs-Home-Mac mdimportserver[480]: * +[NSUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:]: extra data discarded
    Mar 1 20:44:34 Bs-Home-Mac ntpd[191]: sendto(17.72.255.12): Bad file descriptor
    Mar 1 21:52:51 Bs-Home-Mac ntpd[191]: sendto(17.72.255.12): Bad file descriptor
    Mar 1 23:01:07 Bs-Home-Mac ntpd[191]: sendto(17.72.255.12): Bad file descriptor"
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