Okay I found myself getting somewhere in Samba, learning a bit of the command line. I then found a program called LinNeighborhood which helped out immensly as it was a nicer interface even of the windows network itself... I was able to mount the network drives I need. How can I now set these up to mount at startup? LinNeighborhood comes with a way to export the loading script but I do not know how to force-boot that script during startup.

You can try adding the mount to the /etc/fstab file as smb auto.

Okay I know how to edit that file but what do u mean as "smb auto"
How would that like look?

//NetworkCompName//ShareFolder /mnt/Sharefolder vfat umask=0002 gui=network 0 0

I'm not sure how to reference the network drive in the fstab file first off... I don't think the //NetworkcompName//Sharefolder will work.