Strange Network Behaviour Between Our Computers

Like a few others up here, I am having trouble connecting to my other Macs in the house. None of them are on Leopard, but I am.
In the Finder, I can see the other computers under SHARED,but I click to connect and nothing happens. I can't even DISCONNECT using the little arrows. And yet, I can manually go up to CONNECT TO SERVER, type in the address, and connect to the other computers. So it is only in the Finder of my Mac that the new Shared section of a Finder window isn't working. Anyone else ? Any advice? It's a handy feature , if it worked..
Tom

Bananaman,
We've tried with different docks, power supplies and as the system board has been replaced...different pins!!!
We use a lenovo xp build on the machine, and as there are other computers with the same setup and even the same user without issues my poor little brain has simply ran out of ideas!
The only thing we can try from here is a windows 7 upgrade, but thats the last resort!

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