My bluetooth headset stopped working! Whoever broke it must fix!

I occasionally use a bluetooth headset, but it stopped working recently. The status icon in the menu bar shows it is connected - but no sound comes to the headset. This used to work perfectly a month or so ago. This seems to be a software problem, introduced by one of the software updates. I tried to connect the bluetooth module to my vmware-fusion Ubuntu guest OS and it works perfectly. It is kind of sad and ridiculous that the bluetooth works on the guest OS, but not on the host. This problem must have been introduced recently, because it used work perfectly on the host as well. I tried to find a place on the apple support web site to report the issue, but all I could get to was place to talk with an expert after paying for it. I just hope somebody from Apple support reads these forums, because there is nothing the users can do here. Whoever broke it must fix it!

...explains my frustration with questions like: "Are you sure you are not using a bluetooth dongle?"
In point of fact that wasn't the question. It was whether you were using built-in Bluetooth or whether the headphone was one which relied on a USB dongle. Either might have been true and would affect the fault-finding process. The more information you can provide in a post the less necessity there is to start with the basic questions.

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