Corrupt BT stack on Portege M200?

System was working OK with Microsoft BT stack but didn't support audio headset so I installed Toshiba stack.
Now have 3 problems:
1. System recognises mobile phone (Nokia 6260) and appears to pair but Nokia PC suite can't connect to the phone
2. System 'sees' headset (Nokia HDW3) but I get a (rather unhelpful) 'an error occured' dialog box when it tries to connect.
3. When shutting the system down, I now get an 'end program TosOBEX' dialog box.
Further attempts to uninstall / reinstall have no effect on any of the above.
Anyone got any ideas how to solve these issues? The TosOBEX point in particular leads me to suspect that the installation is somehow corrupted.
I've also tried to revert to the Microsoft stack but after removing the Toshiba stack and installing the BT monitor & rebooting, the system looks for Toshiba RFBus Driver. What do I need to do at this step to force it to install a Microsoft stack?

Hi,
finaly I've found the solution for my problem. I don't know if it helps for the others, but it's very interesting.
Let's start at the begining.
* If you create a registry entry named EnableAPILog under HKCU\Software\Toshiba\BluetoothStack\V1.0\Mng\Log you can view the debugOutput with eg. DebugView.
* In the log I saw a lot of tries for creating COM port. Finaly just figured out how the TosOBEX works. After the process start, it will try to create several serial port for it's own services (as Bluetooth Local COM can display in normal case).
So the program calls the "CreateACOMport(x)" function, which returns with a failure. So the program jums back to the call again, next try may be OK. And this call-jump back-call-jump back-call ... will never end. The called function will use the kernel resources, so services.exe will eat all the CPU. (No any error message after x tries of "CreateACOMport" function ??? let's see in next release ;) )
*So checked DeviceManager, but it did not show any local serial port except the normal ones.
Microsoft published how to view the not connected devices (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315539/EN-US/).
With this in 2 hours I deleted all serial ports from the "Ports" class. (Of course first I removed the Toshiba stack).
Toshiba stact reinstall & everything works fine.
that's all.

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