MacBook Air -- Bluetooth connectivity

I use the apple bluetooth keyboard and super mouse. Periodically (not seeming to coincide with any sort of Time Machine backup, heavy internet download, etc), my keyboard and mouse stop responding. I then walk over to my macbook air, turn off my bluetooth using my touchpad, turn it back on, and everything is working again.
Any ideas?

Yes, I installed the update 2.0, and it did not impact the problem for better or for worse.
On a happy note, since I've installed 10.5.8, I have not seen the problem, so something Apple did seems to have fixed it for me.
(Setup is a MacBook Pro 15" late 2008 with the latest Apple aluminum wireless keyboard and wireless mighty mouse. It was almost always the mighty mouse that was a problem before, and turning Bluetooth off and then on again always fixed it, but it happened a few times a day and this was a pain.)

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