Difficulty finding bluetooth headset stereo settings - my headset only plays in mono mode

I've been trying to locate the settings specifically for allowing bluetooth output in stereo (not mono). I swear I've seen them before but after cycling through the menu "Open Bluetooth Preferences" from the top right menu bar it is not an available option. My headphones sound terrible and I know it's just a setting issue. The navigation to find it seems terrible.

Okay, rigerous testing now points in the direction that Vista cannot handle the Mono microphone while playback is stereo.
If anyone has duplicated the above experiment using another mic (laptop mic built-in) it works in STEREO!!! .. Yay! So what remains is how to trick the system so it believes the BH-503 is stereo as well. My laptop mic is definitely not stereo but Vista classifies it as High Definition Audio. Can this be accomplished with the BH-503 mic as well?

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