Blue tooth question

I use a macbook white 2007 with OS X 10.7.5
When I click the bluetooth symbol in the pagetop and open Bluetooth Preferences, and click Advanced I find a few questions about waking up outoff sleepingtime.
Wright under them I find Serial Ports with which devices can be connected to their computers (translation from Dutch to English).
In my situation:
Port Serial                    Modem
Bluetooth-PDA-Sync     Modem
In front of these are two settings: Active and a key-symbol.
My questions are:
What are Serial ports exactly?
I use since a short time a Bluetooth USB dongle. Does that have something todo with the port settings?
What does the setting with the key-symbol mean?
How should I set those Active and key settings if I only use the bluetooth USB dongle and sometimes a printer or a scanner on the cable?

You can pretty much transfer files, pictures stuff like that from your phone to your computer. Also some stuff like printers might have bluetooth capability which would mean that with the right attachement you can have your computer print something with the printer in another room for example. I, myself, am still trying to figure out where the photos go when I transfer enable the bluetooth on my phone to my computer. I seem to send the files but nothing happens in my computer. So if you find anything else out... let me know!

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