Bluetooth Keyboard (or universal HID) Drivers?

I've successfully paired an Apple Bluetooth keyboard with a Blackberry 8830, but cannot use it for input.
Is there a universal HID driver for Blackberry that can be enabled?  Anything native to the device that would allow this to work?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

To use bluetooth keyboards, there is a security setting that must also be changed.  Go to Options>Advanced Options>Applications, find your bluetooth keyboard driver, click for the menu and select Edit Permissions.  Under the Interactions category, make sure that Interprocess Communication and Keystroke Injection are both set to Allow.  This can also be implemented via BES software configurations if you have a lot of them to do.
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        • MacInTouch's listing of Incompatibilities and Workarounds between 3rd-Party software and OS X 10.4
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