Bluetooth Mouse and wake from sleep

I have a MS Bluetooth Mouse (Presenter 8000).
It paired ok, and connected. I used it all afternoon and love the feel and responsiveness - although I did loose the connection a few times). Anyway I returned from dinner to find that the system had gone to sleep. The mouse wouldn't wake it (yes I have that option set). So I dug out my old Apple mouse and plugged it in. When I went to the Bluetooth options on the menu bar I got the spinning beachball. Everything else worked fine but nothing on the menu bar (network, volume, date/time, etc can be used - although spotlight was fine).
I relaunched finder but that didn't help. I suspect that a reboot will be requited to get back full functionality. Is there any way to restart the Bluetooth app behind the menu bar BT icon?
So is my new $80 mouse - which I love - going to be too much of a pain with these 10.5.2 bugs?
Anyone else using a Bluetooth mouse? I can't believe I am having this much problem.
I did not install any software from the MS disk, was I meant to do so?

Seems I am the only one using a Bluetooth mouse. I went a bought a mouse with an RF receiver and have packed the BT mouse away.

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