Apple Bluetooth Keyboard Fails After 10.7.3 Update

I updated to 10.7.3 48 hours ago and my Apple bluetooth keybaord does not work. My Mac Pro system is several years old and does not have an internal bluetooth. I have been using a bluetooth dongle successfully. The keyboard goes through the pairing process normally and appears connected in the System Preferences (Bluetooth) application but no characters appear when typing on the keyboard in any application. How should I start to fix this problem?

I had this problem yesterday. Today, I decided to just turn BT off and back on again, and the keyboard paired successfully. So far, so good.

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