Bluetooth interference - monitor in another room connected to AP Extreme BS

This is a weird one.
In my home office/studio I have an Airport Extreme Base Station and a Magic Mouse (I don't know whether this is relevant, but it's connected to a Mac Pro; the internal BT antenna is disconnected and replaced by an external 2.4GHz wi-fi antenna, since the signal is normally too weak...here's a link to a blog that explains the issue: http://nobblynoel.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/mac-pro-2009-bluetooth-fix/).
My wife has a 27" iMac in her office on the other side of the house, connected to the AEBS at n speed (5GHz).
Whenever she turns on a standard TV monitor that's connected to the iMac by an HDMI cable (she uses it as a second monitor for video editing), my BT mouse gets jumpy.
Anyone have any idea what's going on? The TV monitor is at the other end of the house, so I don't understand the interference.
Would it help to extend the network with an Airport Express?
TIA

This is a link to a discussion of the Bluetooth/Mac Pro issue that explains why I have a wi-fi antenna.
http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2231119&start=180&tstart= 0
Again, I don't know whether that's relevant; the point is that turning on a TV in the other room interferes with Bluetooth in this room. And by the way the problem goes away if I turn off the AEBS, so it's definitely a wi-fi-related murder.

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