I was told that the links reside in the master browser,
and will go away own thier own after an amount of time.
I replicated the problem on my home network and the old
workgroup and computers did go away after about 24hrs.
Also you dont have the option of deleteing a workgroup in
my network places in 2000 or xp.
thx for your reply but the problem seems to have fixed itself
DoZZ