Mystery Bluetooth Mouse Search

My iMac is searching for a Bluetooth Mouse that I do not own. After multiple restarts, the Bluetooth Setup Assistant window appears over the login window which I can not Force Quit nor Unplug my Computer out of. MY iMac is essentially frozen. Any assistance anyone can provide would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Ariel

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Better solutions: Disable it in the Systempreferences!!!!
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Yes, I already tried re-pairing twice: Once using the bluetooth assistant and the second time the options provided in the mouse and keyboard preferences (configure bluetooth mouse). Neither did solve the problem. I should have written that in my initial post, sorry.
When I searched the discussions for my problem before posting I did see that some users have bt problems. But my devices work fine, they do not "disappear" in normal operation. They are only not reacting at the login screen.
Is maybe anybody else using a portable Mac together with bt mouse & kb? I was already thinking that if Snow Leopard detects the internal trackpad and keyboard it does not try to connect the bt ones (as you only need one strictly speaking). But then once I log in they work both and also in parallel (internal and bt) as they did in Leopard (sans Snow).

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or
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Thanks for your reply hammer.
I have now installed the latest bluetooth drivers, the only thing that has happened is that it can now connect to my mobile phone. the mouse is still a no goer.
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Hmm hardware issue could be a bit difficult. But as it is now out of warranty maybe I will need to take it apart myself and see if I can find out the problem.
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The first link, the kb article, listed some registry hacks that appeared to be overly invasive. Almost an approach of "kill 'em all, let God sort them out". I did start looking at all the registry keys listed and found the list quite extensive
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