2 bluetooth dongels one MacBook Pro

Hello
do anyone know how to have 1 USB bluetooth dongle to windows 7 in parallels desktop 7 for use with a lego mindstorm and use the build in bluetooth for mac os x to a magic mouse
every time i plug in the usb dongle Mac os x gos ape **** and says theres no bluetooth and so the mouse stops working, and a restart is needed to get it working again. and parallels desktop is not taking control of the USB dongle fast enough to make mac os x not skewing up
hop there is someone that can help me... need bluetooth in windows 7 but also would like to use my magic mouse in both os's

Wow... finally I found someone with EXACTLY the same issue as me.
We got our son the Mindstorms NXT 2 last week. The Mindstorms program (latest iso image from the Lego support page) on the MBP-2011 under ML (OS X 10.8.1) works well with the USB cable, but crashes every time with the internal BT device of this MPB.
So I bought a cheap BT dongle (2.1 from HAMA) and at first I had trouble installing it on the MBP. The dongle was simply not recognized. Then I started Parallels 7 and all the sudden the dongle popped up on the Windows XP side. Then the MBP all the sudden saw it, too.
I started the Bluetooth Explorer, which I only found through Spotlight, and I could then pick in one of the utilities menus, which BT adapter the Mac should use. I picked the external dongle and then within the WinXP VM via the USB menu I could use this external BT dongle for transferring data to the NXT brick. No problem on the WinXP.
When I tried to do the same with the Mindstorms program on the Mac. It crashed every time independently of which BT adapter I chose.
In other words, the BT drivers and communication within Parallels-WinXP work, but the native drivers on the Mac host don't. Very strange and very inconvenient.
Did you find another solution, which works for you?

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