I'm helping a company with a 5 station peer to peer network on Windows 98se. There is a cable internet connection that they all share. One day the boss brings in his Windows XP laptop and connects it to the hub and trys to join the network. During the network setup wizzard on the laptop, he answered that the laptop would connect to the internet via the LAN. Later in the wizzard it still had him create an internet connection sharing disk and instructed him to run it on all other computers in the network. The first computer he ran the disk on caused the whole network to act very strange. Now sometimes stations show up in the network neighborhood and sometimes not. One station can see none of the others at all, not even itself. We've checked all connections, properties and settings throughout the LAN. All seem as they should. What sort of corruption of the network from running XP's connection sharing is possible and what if any, is the corrective action?

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