Cannot Browse - iPhone Personal Hotspot via BT

Hi
I've already posted this question in the MBA community as I wasn't sure if this is a hardware or software issue but some additional testing has me thinking it's the latter.
You can see the original post and all the gory details here but essentially I am having problems browsing the web when I connect to my iPhone 3GS' personal hotspot via Bluetooth.
Somewhat coincidentally, the issues only started happening since I updated the respective OSs to 10.7.2 (from 10.7.1) and 5 respectively - before then I had no problems using my MBA with my iPhone.
Using my 1st gen iPad to make the same connection works perfectly and oddly enough if I connect the MBA to the iPhone's network having first connected the iPad (whilst the iPad is still connectied), I can browse fine on the MBA.
Disconnecting the iPad from the network I can still browse OK but when I disconnect and reconnect just the MBA, I am back to the original problem and cannot browse.
FYI, browsing on the MBA via wi-fi works OK.
John
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Thanks again for replying.
It is connected - see screen shot below. Just to be clear, the problem is that I am unable browse the web whilst my MBA is connected to my iPhone's network via BT.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2756
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If I then disconnect both devices and reconnect just the MBA, I am back to square one - browsing doesn't work.
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