No Bluetooth tab in "Access Connections"

Hi,
I have a new W500 - my first Thinkpad for a while (last one was a 600e). I am getting on fine with it except I am having trouble using Bluetooth. I can only get to the vanilla windows bluetooth.As I understand it I should be able tosee a Bluetooth tab in my"Access Connections" but I see nothing relating to Bluetooth, just "Connect to the Internet", "Location Profile" and "Options".From browsing the forums I gathered there were some issues with my version of AC (5.02) so I went back to 4.52 as many were suggesting. This did not help so I am back to 5.02.
Through ThinkVantage I can switch bluetooth radio on and off, and I can see the "Thinkpad Bluetooth 2.1 with Enhanced Data Rate" radio (as well as the windows one) through device manager. I tried to update the driver of the thinkpad bluetooth radio to the latest version (I have 6.1.0.4500, and downloaded 6.1.0.4700 from Lenovo) but although it says it installs fine, after a restart it is still showing the old version in Device Manager.
Anyone have any idea how I can use the "Access Connections" tool to control Bluetooth?And why would a tab just not be there??
W500 (4063) with Vista Business x64
Thanks,
Chris

Hello,
if you click on the task icon of AC, AC will open and there should be a tab called tools.
There is the switch for bluetooth.
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