Can you clarify what you mean by "browsing"? You said pinging works, right? So, it's not an IP problem, per-se.. I suspect you're just clicking on network neighborhood and trying to see machines on the far side of the link?
Can you clarify that?
One thing to look for is messages on your servers, especially your domain controller(s) reporting "Master Browser elections".. It sounds like you may have a machine thats missing a LOT of windows updates "stealing" the master browser function from your domain contoller, and/or maybe you have machines with duplicate names?
Also, in your inital post, you said both networks were originally 192.168.1.0. Can you confirm what the network is now, and whether there's a router in there somewhere, or if you're really having a bridged WAN connection?
Thanks!