S9, TMR-BT8iP ????

So, being as I'm not the worlds best researcher. Can I take my newly purchased S9 headphones that don't work, and Get a Sony TMR-BT8iP and actually get my music, IN STEREO, and I don't have to take them back? (it was a gift from my kids). I didn't check first to see if this was yet another of the oddities of the apple world, that nothing works with other Manufacturers components......!!!

I found this post as well and followed the steps exactly and it simply doesn't work.
This issue is driving me crazy and unfortunately really tainting my impression fo Apple.
I have the iPhone 3G and the Motorola S9 headset. Needless to say I was appalled to find out this doesn’t work for stereo music listening out of the box. Absurd an inexcusable as this is, I got over it, and decided to shell out the extra money for one of the various bluetooth transmitters. I started with the Sony described as working above. I could get it to pair for phone calls and then for stereo, but I could never get it to answer a call when music was playing. The most I ever got was a stutter in rining when I tried to answer the call remotely from the headset. I read numerous blog posts and found a number that laid out specific steps, such as the one above, saying it worked great, but they all offered slightly different steps. I wonder if they left out the part where you have to lean your head just right, bend over right when you turn on/off this or that to get the iphone to do with an extra $60 device what it should have done out of the box.
I tried them all: pair the headset to the phone first, turn off the BT on the phone, turn off the headset, then turn on the headset and pair it to the transmitter. Others said pair to the transmitter then turn it off and pair to the phone. Others said push this or that for two seconds or three seconds. I could never get it to play stereo music and answer a call from the headset that comes in when music is playing.
Then I tried the motorola transmitter. Its instructions seem to anticipate this and indicated this would work. I followed the steps exactly and this time the headset would pair to the transmitter and yet the music would never play through the headset, it just played through the iphone speaker while it did respond to the headset controls (play, pause, etc.).
There was even a video of a guy showing it working with an iCombi transmitter: http://bluetoothlounge.com/reviews/motorola-s9-paired-with-iphone-through-icombi -a2dp-adapter/
Unfortunately, it seems that iCombi isn’t around anymore, or their web site shows press releases from 2005, Amazon shows their devices out of stock and no date for when they will be available, an Oakley no longer lists their products on their web site.
This is really absurd, I have spent hours on this. I feel like a monkey randomly trying minute variations on the process, turn this one on first, then this off next, then pair this, disable that, unpair this, etc. etc. Somehow the commercials showing the cool apple guy and nerd PC guy don’t seem to talk about any of this.
Does anyone know how to make this work? Is it possible there is some dependencie on firmware for the S9, or the transmitters or the new 2.2 OS?
Will someone please take hostages at Apple until this is resolved?

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