Bluetooth missing

I upgraded to Lion on my MacBook Pro and on my iMac. All went well until....
today I went to do some work on the MacBook Pro and my wireless mouse will not work.
I checked the Bluetooth icon and it reads "Bluetooth: Not Available". So where did it go??
Can anyone guess how to fix this please... I get the feeling that I should have stayed with Snow Leopard!

light diva wrote:
Looked in System Preferences - under "Internet & Wireless" there is no icon for "Bluetooth" like there is on my iMac.
That's me stuck then. The absence of the Bluetooth icon in there is what I would expect of a computer with no Bluetooth capabilities built in, and requiring a USB Bluetooth adapter. But you imply it was OK before.
Sorry - Pass!

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