Apologies for the length of post, please bear with me. I have read all the MS BT > Widcomm BT guides I can find!

I have been using the MS SP2 Bluetooth stack for Activesync for quite some time now. However, I now need to use the headset profile. I am using an MSI bluetooth dongle and according to MSI (after checking my BD Address) I must use Widcomm 1.3.1 drivers.

So I did the following:

1) Uninstall all bluetooth drivers in device manager.
2) Rename by bth.inf file to bth.inf.old
3) Restarted and confirmed that the old SP2 BT drivers were not installed.
4) I then installed the Widcomm drivers (MSI drivers).
5) I then used device manager to ensure that the non-digitally signed drivers were being used.

This all seemed to go just fine, although my bluetooth device was not listed under the bluetooth devices (there was no bluettoth node in device manager). Instead I think it was under USB devices.

However, now when I try and pair my PocketPC with my Desktop I click on the "Pair Device" button (or whatever it was called) and then entered a code. I then entered the same code on my PPC. Whilst pairing the devices, the "Pair Device" button became greyed out. Then when it was finished the "Pair Device" button became enabled but the Next button did not!

The only way I could continue and select which profiles I;d like to register was then to press "Skip Pairing". I completed the pairing by doing this and selected to use the Active Sync service.

I then checked that the COM port used by this service was selected in Activesync. However,when I try and sync, nothing happens on the Desktop and I get a "Cannot connect" message on the PCC.

Any ideas what has gone wrong with my Widcomm installationa nd why I can;t seem to pair correctly?

TIA