You need to make sure that any and all software firewalls are letting your network traffic through.
If the router can see them, but your PC can't and your PC can access the net, then the problem is with the remote PC's.
If you are using XP, and you haven't already, run the Home Network setup wizard.
Printer sharing will work well, as long as the machine it's connected to is running and logged into Windows. Of course network enabled printers are quite inexpensive these days (at least in Canada) so that would eliminate that problem.
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