Connecting MacBook Pro to Dell Dimension

I have a MacBook Pro, a Dell Dimension and a 24" Dell Monitor. Im trying to connect the two computers to one monitor, keyboard and mouse. Its my understanding that a KVM switch should work but my main concern is that Im trying to use a wireless mac keyboard and a wireless mac mighty mouse. Also, Im going to need to have enough outputs on the switch to be able to share the speakers, a USB printer (Epson R220) and the USB card reader thats built into the monitor. Is there a KVM switch that will be able to handle this?
Is there a better way to be able to share these computers?
Please help!

Wheather the wireless keyboard and mouse will work seems to depend on the adapter / bluetooth software stack being used.
Some people have had success with the DLink DBT-120 adapter, some don't. I have tried it with DBT-120 as well and it did not work. However, I tried it with the version that is currently sold in retail stores, which is the "C1" build version. This one uses a Bluetooth software stack from Toshiba and that seems to be the issue. The B1 version that some people where successful with apparently uses a WIDCOMM stack, and that seems to be the key.
Now, some people are saying that you have to have the DBT-120 adapter and a certain old version of the WIDCOMM stack, 1.4.2.10, to get it to work. But after searching the web quite a bit, I believe I found a better solution that will work with ANY bluetooth adapter (or built in bluetooth) that uses ANY version of the WIDCOMM stack.
Here is what you do:
1. Install you Bluetooth adapter as described by the manufacturer and reboot your machine.
2. Switch the Apple wireless mouse on into pairing mode and watch the lower right side of your screen closely for messages from windows. There will be a message saying that pairing failed because of a missing code. Click on that message and in the window that opens enter 0000 as code. Now your mouse should work.
3. Press Win Start button, choose Run and then type regedit and press enter to access windows registry editor.
4. In the registry editor search for and select -> HKEYCURRENTUSER\Software\Widcomm\BtConfig\General
5. Set the key 'PinCodeWord' to a decimal value of 1111
6. Set the key 'UseFixedPin' to a decimal value of 1
7. Then attempt pairing. When you get to the greyed PIN screen type 1111 using OTHER keyboard THAN Apple Bluetooth keyboard.
8. Press the Return key on the Apple keyboard on the number pad, not the regular Retrun key.
7. Enjoy your nice Apple wireless keyboard and mouse.
I am currently typing this with the Apple wireless keyboard and mouse on a HP laptop. The bluetooth adapter is from Belkin and the WIDCOMM stack is 4.x.

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