Bluetooth issue in Windows

I have an aluminum wireless keyboard and wireless mighty mouse, which work great in mac os, no problem in connecting them. But there seems to be some trouble in Windows. I have installed the Drivers from the Leopard disk but still bluetooth doesn't function properly. When I open "Adding bluetooth device" in the Control Panel the macbook sometimes finds the devices, but it sometimes want me to enter a passkey for the mouse?! How the **** am I supposed to do that? I have no problem entering the passkey with the keyboard, but still it doesn't work.
I have downloaded Widcomm bluetooth drivers, but it seems not to detect the macbook's internal bluetooth. Is it a good idea to re-install the bluetooth driver from the Leopard install cd?

I get the mouse to pair every time, even with bootcamp installer uninstalled on xp. But the aluminum bluetooth keyboard I cannot figure out. I've tried countless times, googled every which way and can't find the solution. Stuff like this should just work...wouldn't you think apple would've debugged a problem like this early on? btw, I'm using a brand new 24" imac 3.06ghz that I just bought yesterday. Would apple please address this? I'm using the imac in my loft as a tv with eyetv which works great and was going to upgrade my xp to vista on bootcamp so i can run both systems...having the sleek bluetooth keyboard was a major decision maker for me. FIX IT!!!

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