Lion bluetooth bug

Since upgrading to Lion, my macbook pro has been experiencing connectivity issues with my apple bluetooth devices (trackpad, wireless keyboard) when I transfer from one workstation to another. I plugin to an external monitor at home with an apple wireless keyboard and trackpad. Then use it stand alone at a coffee shop. Then plugin to another monitor, apple wireless keyboard and trackpad at work. At that point, the bluetooth stops reading signals and will only correct itself on restart. I wiped out all the saved devices in an attempt to resolve the problem, but the problem came back again.
This was never an issue with snow leapard. Does anyone have any ideas what could fix this problem?

No problems here with Lion and Bluetooth...
Could be corrupted preferences.
Go to /Library/Preferences
Move the com.apple.Bluetooth.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Trash.
Restart your Mac.
See if that helped...

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