Bluetooth randomly connecting to devices?

Been having this weird issue in our office. I have a 2014 MBP running Yosemite, and there are 2 new iMacs and a nMPro on the same network also running Yosemite. One of my partners also has a Bose Bluetooth speaker. FYI the other Macs and I all have bluetooth Magic Mouses.
My MBP has been randomly connecting to these other Macs/devices randomly, on it's own. The other Macs will show up as a connected device, even though I have never connected to any of them previously (nor would I, since there's no good reason to connect to them via BT since we're all on the same network already). The Bluetooth speaker is a device I've connected to in the past, but it's automatically connecting to it and that's annoying; just today he was listening to music through it from his MBP (running 10.8) and my MBP interrupted that and attempted to take over the speaker from his Mac.
Previously I found a post about deleting some BT prefs to knock off the connecting to other Macs -- but the article blamed this on the other machines, not mine. I'm starting to wonder if it's not me though; is there something I should delete on my end to clear this mess up?
TIA,
JVK

The only thing I can think of is to reset the device(s).
Be sure, of course, that Bluetooth is set to on.
What are you trying to connect?
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bonz1973: It worked! I am so relieved & happy after so many hours of frustration. I want to thank you so much for your reference to messages #353 & #354 on "Vista 64 Hotsync solution found!" I want to share some of my experience that may help someone else. My comments are in [ ] and take off of those from edwardek.
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