another thing that seemed strange, and maybe it's something i overlooked or havent read yet...
when every i connect to the phone/modem via bt the connection seems to "hang", when trying to reconnect (say after an attempted dial) im getting errors along the lines of permission denied. Im figuring this is something real basic that im just missing here.. to be sure it wasnt a phone configuration I connected w/ vmware+winxp
and was able to create and reuse a bt connection..