Home Network - Router behind Router? Can I make Router act as a switch?

Please help. Here is my network diagram:
http://torch.cs.dal.ca/~quentin/network.JPG

The Cable Modem, LinkSys Router, and Linksys switch are all located in
the basement. I have a single ethernet outlets in 5 bedrooms. With
PCs in all 5 rooms, all machines can ping and access each others
shares.

I want to put 2 computers in 1 bedroom where there is only 1 ethernet
outlet. This is the Question mark part of my diagram. I only have 1
ethernet jack in my bedroom. Im sure I could simply put a switch in
that bedroom and everything should work magically, but I do not have a
switch. I do have an extra D-Link 704P router however. I was hoping I
could use this router as a switch somehow and still have all the
machines able to do SMB file sharing. Is this possible?

So far Ive been unsuccessfull. I was able to setup a second private
using the Router's NAT in bedroom 5. I plugged the D-Link router in,
gave it a static WAN IP of 192.168.0.2. I then gave it a LAN IP of
192.168.1.1. I plugged 2 machines into this router and gave them
192.168.1.x addresses. These machines had internet access, but the 2
machines plugged into the router could not access any file shares from
any of the other computers on the network.

Anyone know the proper way to configure such a network? Or can this
simply not be done with a second router?

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