Can't get Filco Majestouch FKBT104M/EB Bluetooth Wireless USB keyboard working on XP

[EE-test]

It has been a while since I tried to connect a FKBT104M/EB to a PC (we usually use it with a MacBook Pro laptop).  Back when I bought it, I remember getting it to work with this Windows XP computer, but today I'm having trouble getting Windows XP to allow me to type with it.

Here's what I am trying:
1. Open Bluetooth Devices in Control Panel
2. Click Add...
3. Turn keyboard power on (depress button in middle of the think back of the keyboard -- around the corner from the F9 key).
4. Click my device is set up and ready to be found
5. Click Next >
6. Hold down button on right side at top for about 5 seconds until blue LED starts flashing.
7. FILCO Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard shows up as a device I can add.  I click it.
8. Click Next >
9. I leave it on "Choose a passkey for me" and click Next
10. It prints a passkey in bold text.  I type the eight digits, then press Enter.
11. It accepts the passkey and now "Installing the keyboard" appears in bold.
12. Wizard pops to "Completing the Add Bluetooth Device Wizard", saying that "The Bluetooth device was successfully connected to your computer.  Your computer and the device can communiate whenever they are near each other."
13. The yellow hardware autodetect bubble pops up from the status bar ("Bluetooth peripheral device").
14. The bubble text changes to "Bluetooth HID device".
15. The bubble text changes to "A problem occured during haredware installation. Your new hardware might not work properly."
16. The keyboard is unresponsive.

Is there an obvious mistake I am making?

[EE-test]

Oh, http://www.diatec.co.jp/support/details/fkbt108setup.html is available as a reference, but I can't actually read Japanese.

[ch_123]

Yeah, I have vague memories of hearing about a bluetooth problem. Can't remember where I saw that though.

[EE-test]

I just tried it again with the Macbook Pro (running MacOS 10.6).  The keyboard is pairing, connecting and working flawlessly with that machine and OS.  I'll find a second Windows XP machine in order to determine whether the problem might be specific to my original machine.


Google cache of Diatec's information page for the discontinued FKBT104M/EB for convenient future reference:

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:0nFyBwiHHikJ:www.diatec.co.jp/en/det.php%3Fprod_c%3D495+fkbt104m/eb&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

[natevoodoo]

Google only pulled up foreign sites and my babelfish is malfunctioning.
Want to use it with MacBook too so not concerned with XP problem.

[EE-test]

My wife and I bought it while visiting the Akihabara station area in Tokyo, Japan, at the store name that starts with DOS/VI and ends with a Japanese character symbol:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Akihabara,+Tokyo,+Japan&sll=35.699547,139.733391&sspn=0.090752,0.152779&ie=UTF8&hq=Akihabara,&hnear=T%C5%8Dky%C5%8D+Metropolis,+Japan&layer=c&cbll=35.699108,139.772712&panoid=8jrDi7e2PKHaAA2ywIa2Zg&cbp=12,144.75,,0,0.08&ll=35.699861,139.774911&spn=0,0.019097&z=16

I've tried to use the keyboard with another Windows XP machine since: I can get it to work, but I have to re-pair the device after every reboot, and often the re-pair fails and I have to uninstall, then reinstall the driver, which basically makes it pointless to attempt to use.  What a waste of 100+ Cherry MX brown-axis keys, sigh -- and the worst part is that the actual hardware is probably just fine!

It'd be nice to know if any hardware engineers could say whether the code at http://code.google.com/p/btstack/ might be of any help in terms of getting this device to work.  Unfortunately, the Geekey project (http://geekey.org) seems to be floundering, without much collaboration or progress to speak of.