What exactly does "Make AppleTalk Active" do?

Hi,
*System Preferences > Network > Ethernet > AppleTalk > Make AppleTalk Active*.
I would like to know specifically/technically what exactly this option does?
When connecting to OS X Macs, and Windows boxes publishing AppleTalk/AppleShare/AFP, there does not seem to be any need to have this option enabled.
However, I am in an argument with a tech support guy at the moment, who is trying to claim that unless this option is enabled, connecting via AFP [1] is not true AFP...
I know AppleTalk is a collection of protocols implemented in the 80s some time. And I know that AFP on Tiger is basically AppleShare over TCP/IP, and that AppleTalk over AppleTalk is not supported by Tiger.
I suspect the Make AppleTalk Active option is somehow related to supporting AppleTalk sharing with old Mac systems, OS9,8,7 etc. But I really need to know exactly.
Thanks.
+[1] in this case, it is relating to sharing files between Tiger 10.4.10 systems and a Windows XP based RIP which is publishing some flavour of AppleShare.+

Chris--
My understanding is that AppleTalk is the protocol, like TCP/IP is a protocol. That's what this page implies to me:
http://www.protocols.com/pbook/appletalk.htm
So, at its inception, AppleTalk was a network transport protocol. There was a time when you could build an AppleTalk network without using TCP/IP, TCP/IP was only for the Internet (if you even knew what that was). You would just connect up some cables (not even ethernet, necessarily), and you'd get a network. It was pretty slow, but ethernet stuff was wicked expensive, so it didn't matter. AppleTalk handled the network transport, and AFP was a part of that.
Sometime before OS 9 came out, Apple moved the AFP part to TCP/IP. AppleTalk was still available, mostly because of the legions of people who had old printers that only had AppleTalk (I know I was one of them until March of this year, when my LaserWriter Pro 600 gave up the ghost). If I had to guess I'd guess it's been almost ten years since they moved to AFP over TCP/IP. Certainly it was before OS 9.
If you want to try connecting to the Windows Server via AppleTalk, you can try changing the URL in the dialog you get when you use the Finder's "Connect to Server..." menu item. I think, if I remember correctly, it takes this form:
<pre class="command">afp://at/serveraddress:*/</pre>
If that doesn't work, then take out one "/" after "afp:".
charlie

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