Wireless networking question

Hello. New to here and Macs. I love my MBP though. I just got DSL for home and tried to get my desktop PC/W.XP to talk to my MBP. I don't have the foggiest idea what I am doing though so it is kind of tiral and error...mostly error. I have run the network wizard and the wireless network wizard in windows and they have asekd me to do the same on all other computers and devices (printer) to network. Problem is they aren't asking me what kind of computers I have and I guess they are assuming my others are running windows too.
Any ideas where to go from here?

You need to create a shared folder on your pc to begin with.
Right click on a folder, and select properties. Click the sharing tab (or button...I don't have a pc in front of me) and set up the folder as shared.
Then, in order for you to access your mac from your pc, you'll need to set up file sharing on your mac. To do this go to :
System Preferences > Sharing > Personal File sharing
and
System Preferences > Sharing > Windows sharing
Now, you may be able to browse the network from the mac or you may have to manually type the ip address...
In the finder, press apple - shift - k
Your PC should show up after a while...probably in a "Workgroup" folder
If not, then find the ip address of your pc by going:
Start > Run
and type cmd and hit return.
now, with the command prompt type ipconfig
it should display the computer's ip address.
now back on your mac, in the finder, press apple - k
type \\123.123.123.123\sharedfolder where 123.123.123.123 is your pc's ip address and shared folder is the name of the folder you set up for sharing and that should mount on your desktop.
as for the windows machine connecting to the mac, go to network connections on your windows machine, and click network setup wizard. follow the instructions and post back if you get stuck.
hope this helps!
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