Time Capsule Shared drive- Bonjour hangs, mapped drives work intermittantly

I am having an issue in a Mac/PC environment with a Time Capsule. Naturally, the Macs have no problem.
I was able to resolve some issues. Initially, the PCs could not connect to the Time Capsule. It turned out that the Time Capsule had a name that was 20+ characters long. Now, I can get them to log in, but the connection is very intermittant. The particulars:
1 - Everything is on a 192.168.y.z. network, and the PCs are in a workgroup (small company, no domain). PCs are running Vista and XP Pro.
2 - Everything is wired, no wireless
3 - The PCs can print through Bonjour and I can also administer the Time Capsule from the Airport Utility on a Windows machine.
3 - If I map a drive, Z:\\192.168.y.z\TCShare and then log in as Guest / Device password, sometimes it will connect other times not. If I get a connection, then log another PC onto the device, I lose the connection on the first one and the other never connects.
4 - Bonjour never connects from the PCs. If I try with guest access, it says that I need Netbios enabled (it is and I have the Time Capsule address in WINS). If I try the password, Bonjour hangs and eventually says Not Responding.
I've tried various fixes on this and other forums, but Im at a loss at this point. I can provide any additional information, just let me know.
Sincerely,
Brian Fink

I have a 1TB TC currently working as my router for a Macbook, Vaio and Dell laptops. I can only access the files from the Macbook. I tried installing Bonjour on the Vaio, but still cannot access the saved files...maybe the install was not good? Any ideas? I tried the online Bonjour download...I do not have the disc.

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