Windows Sharing button "dead"!

Apologies if this has been answered, but the Search function is presently turned off in the forums ...
About to upgrade to 10.4.10 and intending to use the "Combo" because some flaky things have been happening lately (lost permissions, oodles of red crosses on folders, Dashboard will only hiccup-not open).
Problem: When I attempt to turn on Windows Sharing, the radio button recognizes the mouse-click event (I see a very subtle icon change), but it will not activate. Firewall on or off, no difference. And, no filesharing. Boo!
Any suggestions? Condisering an Archive and install, followed by upgrade to 10.4.10.
TIA,
KAS
Home LAN (Linksys wired and wireless) with 2-3 other Windows XP machines)
Powerbook G4 (1.0GHz PPC/768M RAM/80G HDD/Combo Drive) Mac OS X (10.4.9) Dell Dimension (P4@2GHz/768M RAM/120G HDD/Windows XP)

Great that Applejack helped... can't fix something
else with Volume issues!
Might try trashing...
/Users/nnnn/Library/Preferences/com.apple.internetconn
ect.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.p
list
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.air
port.preferences.plist
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aces.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.networkConfig.plist
Reboot... of course you dont have to trash them, you
can just move them to the desktop to drag back if it
doesn't work.
See if Sharing Panel Works then.
<snipped>
BDAqua-
Moved the preferences files to a desktop folder, rebooted, and found that OS X had "made some changes" for me: First, I had a new user account, using my previous long user name, I was prompted to select a short name & password for the account. I was confused. But since my prior user account had been plagued with problems, I accepted the invitation, took the data I needed from the "dead account," and trashed it. At the same time I chose to upgrade to 10.4.10, using the install I had downloaded from apple.com about two weeks ago.
Net result: System in general seems cleaner -- which is both good and bad: I have to re-enter much info, but sense that I have lost some gremlins in the process.
As far as Windows Sharing? Nope! Whatever was renewed by all of the above, I cannot invoke windows sharing.
If I am correct, and Samba lies at the root of this and my printing problem (i.e., my inability to print to a LaserJet 5P on LPT1: of my Dell/Windows box), nothing we've tried has touched Samba or corrected either issue.
I can make do without Windows Sharing -- temporarily: I can use Kenbushi (formerly PC-Mac-FileShare) to transfer files plus I just got an external USB/FW400 hard drive (320GB WD My Book) on which I have finally created (after 3 days work) an NTFS read-write partition for the Mac (I deserve another degree for the research I did to solve that little ditty! Both help.
But since I also still can't print over my network, I STILL need advice. BTW, anyone else can feel free to help!!
Be well, BDAqua!
TIA,
Ken S

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