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That is odd.
Honestly, I'm at a bit of a loss on this one. It's very difficult to diagnose an issue like this remotely. Add to that the fact that I'm not really a Mac guy, and things get complicated.
It does sound like some sort of misconfiguration in the router -- perhaps it's handing out IP addresses improperly, or it's firewall is blocking the UDP packets used by SMB for discovery. The only other alternative I can think of is that there's some obscure Windows Networking error. The protocol isn't particularly robust, and can be broken by a number of relatively common setups that Microsoft apparently didn't account for. That doesn't account for the ping loss, but it's also possible that the unreturned pings aren't related.
Information I'd like now:
Each computer's IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway. In Windows you can find these under the Properties of the Network Connection (Accessible via Start>Settings). I don't know exactly where it is in Mac OSX, but there ought to be a similar method for obtaining it.
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