Bluetooth Keyboard and Blackberry 8830 - Can they pair?

I have a co-worker with a Blackberry 8830 and he is looking for information regarding pairing that with an Apple BT keyboard. In fact, he already purchased one and has asked me to try and make it work. I have had NO luck, obviously.
I believe at least one of the problems to be the fact that the BT keyboard uses an 8-digit rotating key for the pairing. Is there a "backdoor" key that will always work on these keyboards? I'm mentally answering this question even as I type it...probably not.
Anyway, if anyone has worked on this and wouldn't mind pointing me in the right direction, I'd certainly appreciate it. My Google skills are turning up nothing. Thanks!

Eureka!
I got the two devices talking by:
-On my MacBook, I started to pair the BT keyboard
-On the Blackberry, I initiated a search for devices
-Both systems found the keyboard
-Started up the pairing sequence on the MacBook and got the key BUT DID NOT ENTER IT
-I let the pairing sequence time out on the MacBook
-By this time, the Blackberry had also timed out and was asking for a retry
-Selected "Try Again" and entered the key displayed on the MacBook screen
-Also entered the key on the BT keyboard and pressed "Enter"
-BOOM - paired....
Now the bad news...even though the devices are paired, I cannot use the keyboard for input. Back to the drawing board!

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My Mac:
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You're welcome. My discovery was quite accidental, but that's often how things happen ... if you're paying attention and are looking for clues.
Sorry you had to trial and error before you succeeded, but as you've probably found, it is necessary to rename the bluetooth devices first, then delete them from OS X.
I don't understand why this trick was necessary, or even what caused it to happen. I've got 6 Win 7 installations via Boot Camp on 6 Intel Macs (2 white MacBooks, 1 Unibody MacBook, a Core Duo Mac Mini, a 27" iMac and the 20" 2.4 Mid-2007 iMac). All were running 10.6.2 and Win 7 (aren't Family Packs wonderful?) via Boot Camp 3.0 more or less without problems, except as noted in my first post.
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