Too many shared computers

I work for a University that has approximately 2,500 computers on its network. The "Shared" section in the Finder sees every one of those computers (a very large majority PC). The only systems I'm interested in are the Macs (15 total) used by the other employees in my office. At this point, I have to dig through the other 2,500 systems to find a guy 10 feet away. In previous versions of OS X, only my office computers were listed in the "My Network" folder while the rest of the campus could be found under the Campus' folder.
Is there a way to accomplish this in Leopard?
or create aliases to our office's computers to be stored in a Desktop folder?

Hi Nicholi
See if this works for you.
Under Finder> Finder Preferences> Sidebar select only Connected servers.
login to the machines you frequently connect to and add them to your login items.
You can also add "lower level" folders of connected servers that you frequent to the the Dock (the strange thing this dose not seem to work using "List" mode) or put them in sidebar> Places. If the user and password are stored in the Keychain it should automatically connect when you select them.

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Message Edited by CKdoubleU on 10-01-2008 08:43 AM

First please break that long text into separate paragraphs. No one wants to read one long runon sentences
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