Trying to do home sharing between OSX 10.5.6 and Windows 7.

My main music collection is on my Windows 7 machine since I have about 2.5 terabytes of storage on this machine. When I open iTunes 9.0 from my mac and go to Home Sharing I can see my home computer and I can connect to it. I can also see my wife Vista machine and connect to it. From my home PC I can see my wifes Vista machine and can connect to it but with my Mac I'm only able to see it, if I click on it to connect I get the "The shared library "my library" is not responding (-3259). I also get this error when I try to connect to the Mac from my wifes Vista machine. I enabled music sharing in iTunes on the mac, enabled file sharing and also ensured the firewall is allowing all incoming connections. I disabled the firewall on the home pc and also opened up port 3689 on my router as that's what the error message suggests.
Any other advice you could provide?

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