Bluetooth has gone

After upgrading to panther the bluetooth in my PB 12" has gone. System Profiler doesn't say anything about it. System Preferences doesn't have a Bluetooth Pane. Bluetooth worked until installing 10.3. I had to do an erase and install to fix some problems.

I'm having similar problem
Everytime I start my powerbook, it will says Bluetooth not available, and I have to Shutdown and restart in order for the system to detect it. EVERYTIME I turn on the powerbook, I have to do the same exercise in order to get the bluetooth to work
Is there something wrong with my system? It's getting really annoying Will a clean install help? I have upgraded to Tiger since April but this issue only started last couple of weeks.

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