Samba / Airport / Windows XP - Media Playback Problems

[postop]

Trying to identify what's causing the problem right now. I made a number of changes to my LAN before I had this problem just wondering if someone had any idea how to make it stop.

Okay, current configuration.

* Windows XP SP2 PC with wired NIC
* Windows XP SP2 Notebook with wireless NIC (802.11g)
* Gentoo Server (Samaba 3.0.7 server with exposed shares)
* Airport Extreme. Windows XP clients go DHCP, Gentoo box gets static
* Netgear 10/100 4 Port Swtich (hooked to the airport, laptop runs wirless, all other machines connect to switch)

Samba is running fine on the and I can mount and access the shares from the windows clients, except when it comes to audio/video playback. Any media files (mp3, divx, xvid, etc.) in any player (Winamp, iTunes, Media Player) will get random stops in the middle of playback. The player might recover after a few seconds and pickup where it left off, or it'll give up and go to the next file in the playlist. The stop can last from secodnds to minutes. This occurs on both wired and wirless connections.

This problem started after I'd swtiched from my Netgar DSL Routner to the Airport and upgraded the Windows PC from 2000 to XP. Things I've checked:

* Left ping running for a few minutes on the wired XP pc with the max size and didn't see any packet loss.
* Checked the samba logs and didnt see any errors.
* When the playback stops, I check the smbstatus and it looks fine (shows the current file being read). The weird thing is that Windows locks up any type of file exploring (browse, open file, list drives, etc.).

Here's my smb.conf (filtered)

[soujirou]

well i got a strange problem with samba.. i can see the share and everything.. but when i want to copy a file from it it "freezes"

and i have checked the permissions..

weird it is
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