T60 - Bluetooth PAN not available?

Hi there,
I have a T60 (1951-CZ1), and the bluetooth has always worked fine for what I use it for (literally transferring files between my phone and the laptop). However I have recently got a new phone and a new program on it that requires a PAN to be setup with the laptop in order to be able to control the mouse from the phone, etc. The phone has the PAN profile in its bluetooth stack, but I don't think my Thinkpad has.  Its not in the list of services available, unless its called something different.
I've downloaded and installed what I believe to be the latest driver for the Thinkpad's bluetooth (http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-70450), but this doesn't give me a PAN option either.  It has to be PAN as described on this webpage here (http://gbmsoftware.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17:bluetooth-howto&catid=3:faq&I...).
Is there any way to get this PAN capability on my laptop - any software I can install, any updated drivers, etc?
Thanks,
David 

Easy answer...  after a few hours of playing.  )
Background: I have a t61P with XP SP3. My bios setting was "bluetooth enabled", the thinkpad bluetooth light was on. The thinkpad switch for wireless was on, and the [FN][F5] setting showed bluetooth on.
the problem was that I had both the Microsoft stack and the Lenovo thinkpad stack.
I had to:
1) remove the bluetooth item in device manager
2) Unload the Lenovo stack (through control panel) and then
3) remove the MS stack (using the info here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889814 ).
4) Reboot.
5) Choose [cancel] when the reboot tries to load drivers for bluetooth.
6) load the newest lenovo stack for your thinkpad via the downloads at lenovo support.
Bam! That did it.
I hope that helps others.

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