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I'm not good at writing these so please forgive me...
I may have found the problem in regard to "Failed to retrieve list from Server" in 9.04.
I noted that when I tried to do smbtree, it showed the Windows box but then tried to connect to an IP address in my ISPs range before coming up with a NT_AUTHENTICATION error.
After much digging around, I looked in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
In the hosts: line, files and dns were listed but wins wasn't so it'd look like:
hosts: files dns
As soon as I added wins after files so it looks like this:
hosts: files wins dns
then rebooted, it all worked perfectly. Places, Network instantly showed the Windows box and the workgroup. Clicking on the windows box brought up the password and user dialogue box and all shares were shown. Clicking on the workgroup, then the server worked the same. In addition to that, the Add Printer search function now works instead of timing out when you get to the Windows box it's attached to.