White MB early 2007 model BT problem

Hello people.
I have one very unique problem with my Mac and I hope you'll be able to help me a little.
First of all, I'm not English nor American so forgive me if I have some grammar mistakes in this text.
I use BT and BT sharing for 3 different phones. Most of the time I use it to get and send files to my HTC phone.
Bluetooth worked flawlesly until yesterday.
Now I can turn it on, see all of the BT options and the list of devices that were added to BT sharing.
When I send file from the phone to the Mac it receives the file and I'm able to see the dialog that asks me where should it store the file and I'm able to open the received file.
But I can neither send nor browse any of the phones from the Mac.
Oh I almost forgot to mention. I have SL 10.6.8 installed.
I don't know if any of you encountered any similar problem.
Thank you in advance.
Tony.

Thanks for your reply ...
Your Macbook requires SO-DIMMs) of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM, use ram that meets that spec and you'll be fine.>>
I had that ... 5300 DDR2, 667MHz, CL4 .... so it is not the whole thing .... On that site there is just the normal blahblah, nothing specific .... Bought that computer (decided for it), so I know the standard blahblah ....
I think that once you have some decent ram from a decent vendor that meets Apple's specs you'll not wish to go back to windows! >>
I have been a Mac user since I left the Atari ... so it would definitely not be 'going back to Windows' ....
dump the v4 beta. Use the current version 3.2.3 and I think you'll have no problems.>>
Maybe ... but if a beta software does not even work with the stuff of the developer ....
thanks
best
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