Chuck,

Thanks for the suggestions and link to the great web site!
Unfortunately nothing suggested on that site fixed my problem and I
tried everything listed including reinstalling the hardware and
resetting the winsock and tcp/ip systems.

Here is the info you requested... First for the good working machine
(diablo) on my local net:

OS: Windows XP, Version 2002, Service Pack 2 with updates about 2 weeks
old

ipconfig /all:

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : diablo
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : oc.cox.net

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : oc.cox.net
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100+
Management Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-D0-B7-BB-F7-BE
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.101
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Monday, December 05, 2005
11:53:58 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Monday, December 12, 2005
11:53:58 PM

browstat status:

Status for domain MIES_NET on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{6F65E529-273F-48CB-B8B1-A4847CC6CFF4}
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: DIABLO
Master browser is running build 2600
1 backup servers retrieved from master DIABLO
\\DIABLO
Unable to retrieve server list from DIABLO: 64

Secondly, for the bad non-working machine (munich) on my local net:

OS: Windows XP, Version 2002, Service Pack 2 with updates about 4 weeks
old

ipconfig /all:

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : munich
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : oc.cox.net

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : oc.cox.net
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139/810x Family
Fast Ethernet NIC
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-13-D3-0C-26-92
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.100
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, December 07,
2005 8:48:13 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, December 14,
2005 8:48:13 PM

browstat status:

Status for domain MIES_NET on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{6F926788-8BCE-4149-B617-7F2C6EBFED2E}
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: DIABLO
Master browser is running build 2600
1 backup servers retrieved from master DIABLO
\\DIABLO
There are 2 servers in domain MIES_NET on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{6F926788-8BCE-4149-B617-7F2C6EBFED2E}
There are 1 domains in domain MIES_NET on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{6F926788-8BCE-4149-B617-7F2C6EBFED2E}

There are some obvious differences in the browstat output but I'm not
sure what they mean.

Thanks for the help!