Address Book & Bluetooth

I have just upgraded to Leopard and I appear to have lost a function from address book.
In the past there used to be a bluetooth icon on the toolbar which when activated connected to your mobile phone. When somebody called a pop-up screen appeared giving details of who was calling and options to pick up the call.
Does anybody know where this feature has gone and if so how to re-activate it.
Many thanks in advance.
Iain

Wow...
It seems I've found another removed feature or capability every week since "upgrading" to Leopard.
There are widgets to replace the SMS features that the address book bluetooth supported. But I haven't found anything to replace the caller ID or dialing feature.
Add that to killing Unsanity's APE, no scrolling or sound control in the preview of media file and the loss of so many older programs, control panels, screen savers, etc...
Leopard is looking more and more like the upgrade from XP to Vista, where you lose as many features as you gain.
The sad thing is, there was no simple way to see all you would lose by "upgrading" to Leopard. At least Microsoft gives you a matrix (albeit confusing) to see what version of Vista you need so you won't lose something you need. With Leopard, the gives you five pretty examples of what you MIGHT be able to do, but no indication of what you will no longer be able to do.
I don't usually participate in the discussion boards, but I just went to dial a number in my address book and realized another of the "upgraded features" of Leopard.
This is getting frustrating.
Does anyone know of a third-party solution for dialing from the address book?
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