Holding My Breath and Knocking on Wood

Just installed 10.5.6. Of course scoured the update list looking for mention of anything to do with my SMB problem... nothing. Still I've had pretty good luck with Apple updates, so I bit the bullet and installed it. Nothing immediately seems wrong. So I go to run my test for the SMB problem... Hmmm... now I can't connect to any SMB share. This isn't good. When I attempt to do a Go To Server from Finder, I get nothing.. just the window that says it's trying to connect. Or I get a prompt for my credentials... weird since I'm using AD binding and an AD login... but anyway, I input my credentials and nothing.

I know that I may have complexed things because in the last day or two, I've done a sync on MobileMe and I'm wondering if things in my keychain may have gotten overwritten or ... I don't know... anyway. I unbind my Mac and then rebind it... still nothing. So I replace the keychain with a new one. This doesn't seem like the answer either. Finally, I am able to get "connected" to an SMB share when I do Go To Network and browse the network, but still can't when I do Go To Server... odd. So, I delete the "new" blank keychain and put the old one back. All of a sudden it's all working. Not sure if the keychain thing was the answer... shouldn't have been, but perhaps, or maybe OS X and AD just needed to get in sync again. At any rate I am good again, so I finally start my test.

As before I mount and unmount several SMB shares quickly in succession for about 7-8 times and no Kernel Panics. So, I take the big leap and add back in my AppleScript to my login items to mount the shares. This seems to work OK. Since doing all of this, I have logged out several items and rebooted my Mac as well as accessing several documents on these shares and so far (holding my breath and knocking on wood) it's working OK. I also had the weird video display problem and that too, hasn't reappeared. I'll reserve judgement until I run with this for a week or so, but right now it looks good.