This must be my lucky day. I haven’t mentioned it here, but I recently updated to Hardy Heron, without a hitch. All my old problems with Bluetooth, crashes, and so forth, disappeared. It may have been so smooth because I updated the HP Pavillion bios (in Vista), which I think was previously causing untold problems. [...]

Apologies for being so long in returning to this subject, as promised on December 15.
If you’ve read my entry Starting Bluetooth Services: Gutsy bootup problem from December 4, you’ll have read that my attempts to blacklist Bluetooth failed.
I’ve had some comments and emails about this, and it seems to be a particular problem [...]