Sony Ericsson K810 and MacBook?

I'm looking at getting a K810 as my next mobile phone and wondered if anyone has any experience of how well this works with Bluetooth-enabled MacBooks.
I'm keen to get G3 data connectivity as the GPRS on the Nokia 6230i I'm currently using is slow and flaky, with frequent dropped GPRS connections even in areas of strong signal.
Any comments/advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Michael

I've got the phone but can't get it to connect. I had trouble getting the phone to use Orange Internet but got an update SMS from the Sony Ericsson site which fixed that, so the phone goes online OK and it pairs with MacBook fine. I ran the Bluetooth Setup from the laptop and it picked the Ericsson Infrared script by default, which didn't work at all, so I got Ross Barkman's Modem Scripts for Sony Ericsson 3G phones but can't make it work with any of them (CID 1 to 5). Some fail after a time-out with no apparent activity from the phone, others go right through to the 'Establishing connection' and 'Authenticating User' stage in the Bluetooth pane of Internet Connect and then the phone reports 'connection failure, check settings'. I got it to work once, using the CID 5 script but when I tried again it went back to the symptoms above.
Any suggestions please?

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