Blackberry Bridge with Proxy

Hi,
I'm using Blackberry Bridge with my Playbook and it works great for email when it's not connected to the Wifi, but when I connect to the corporate Wifi (which uses a proxy) the Bridge tries to use the Wifi for the Messaging (and other) applications. This causes problems as when you try to run the Messaging application you recieve a message similar to this from the corporate proxy server:
Access Denied to http://127.0.0.2:187/messages
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to fix this? It would be nice if the bridge knew to always use the Bluetooth not the Wifi, or if there was an option in the Proxy settings to list exclusions from the proxy.
Thanks,
John

Yep, exact same issue here. I haven't found a work around for this as of yet, I'm also interested if anyone has a solution?
For now, I've been unchecking the 'use HTTP proxy' in wifi setup so I can at least bridge with my BB for mail/calendar and the have limited ability to use the browser to navigate to company internal sites etc (that do not require proxy credential auth). If I need to access the 'outside' with the PB browser, I've been manually editing the proxy server info on the PB. (which subsequently kills the ability to send/rec mail etc) Ugh...
This is definitely not ideal, I'm hoping this is addressed/resolved in upcoming updates. (preferably proxy auto-detect, but bridge simply ignoring the proxy settings would do the trick)

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