Gingerbread update - Bluetooth no longer working in car

I have seen people complaining about this issue on other forums - lots of phone models and car models are affected. My bluetooth was wworking perfectly for hands-free calling prior to the Gingerbread update. Bluetooth stopped working the day I received my Gingerbread update last week. I've tried everything I can try. Apparently there is no resolution to the issue yet. Verizon tech support could not help - they told me to contact HTC. HTC tech support had no clue. I want to revert back to Froyo, but apparently that's not possible either. I am VERY frustrated. I loved Android, but bluetooth in my car is a very important feature for me. Might be time for an iPhone...
If anyone has any solutions for this issue, please let me know. By the way, I have read in other forums that a factory reset does not work - it keeps the same phone software. It's something that changed in Gingerbread that is causing the problem. I would love to get rid of Gingerbread.

Smitty,
I don't have Gingerbread (yet, and I'm thinking that's a good thing at this point), but I've had the same problem with my DInc before with my 7 week old new car. After an initial successful link-up and upload of my phone book, my phone wouldn't maintain a connection either.
Here's my suggestion for you, because It's my current work around to get my bluetooth connection to work:
1) Unpair your car bluetooth and your phone so you can start from scratch
2) Re-pair your DInc and your car
3) When your phone connects to your car, you'll hopefully get a pop-up dialogue box on your phone asking to link to your phone book. At this point, say no to the phone book link. You *should* hopefully have a good bluetooth connection now, and you'll still have the ability to dial from your phone book. If you don't get the pop-up, well...I'm out of ideas. Sorry.
I don't know what capability that pop-up dialogue box on the phone supports, but it sure screws up my bluetooth connection in my car.

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