My Mighty Mouse wont come out and play!

This is really not a new topic but an old problem for which I have yet to find an answer. I have a new iMac 27” i7 on which I have installed Windows XP Home Edition. I can’t get the Mighty Mouse to work.
I have tired a number of solutions. I have gone through the Windows trouble shooting process and not found anything wrong except that the mouse still doesn’t work. I have reinstalled the Bootcamp drivers from the Snow Leopard OS DVD but that did nothing.
All this has entailed a lot of exploration and exposition for me in the Windows wilderness and I have been able to identify the point at which my mouse refuses to come out of its hole.
In Windows when I go into the Control Panel/Printers and other Hardware/Bluetooth devices a window opens with two pale icons, one is the keyboard and the other the mouse. The Keyboard icon is identified as “passkey enabled” and “connected”. The mouse is identified as “enabled” but there is no connected entry. When I highlight the mouse icon, click on Properties and click on the Services tab a touch appears and looks for and finds a check box labelled “Drivers for keyboard, mice, etc (HID)”.
When I check this box and click either “OK” or “Apply” a window opens titled “Bluetooth Service Error” telling me that “Access is denied”.
Denied! Denied! Windows XP is behaving like my best friends mother telling me her son has a cold and I can't come over to play and he can't come out.
So how do I get this best friend (my Mighty Mouse) to come out and play in Windows XP?

Thanks Barry
I remember trying this download earlier in the year and getting nowhere. Still I gave it another shot.
I downloaded the update "AppleBcUpdate.exe" from the link
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3934
and tried to install it in Windows.
As the link you directed to me explained it is possible to get the following message "This update is not intended for this computer and will not be installed".
Well that put an end to that little idea.
It wouldn't install and the link didn't explain how to get around this message. The link also suggested that you should see if the drivers were correctly installed. I figured if the update wouldn't install it was because the drivers were already there. So I followed the instructions - Start menu/All Programs/Accessories/Systems Tools/Systems Information/Software Environment/(+) and looked for the drivers.
The link said that the Apple Built-in Bluetooth should be version 3.0.0.9. It was. It also said that the Apple Wireless Mouse driver should be version 3.0.0.5. Well there was no such driver.
This download was dated Oct 28th. My machine was bought in late Dec and has Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.2 so perhaps this version of Snow Leopard has Bootcamp drivers that supersedes this update.
Who know?
Anyway the problem remain.
I have a young friend who has just bought the small version iMac and I helped him install Windows XP using Bootcamp. He also can't use his mouse.
I should also correct myself at this point. I called my mouse "Mighty Mouse" when it should of course be "Magic Mouse". Well what do you expect I'm old. In my day there was only one mouse and his name was Mickey.
John

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