Bluetooth woes, losing hair

[Richard Cheesman]

Right.

After a couple of weeks of being patient, reading many posts about 'how 
bluetooth in Ubuntu is easier than Vista', I give up.

I have a bluetooth dongle for my Ubuntu box (Gutsy), and would like to 
connect my Palm T|X and Motorola V3i to it.  Possibly to sync data, or 
just for filesharing.  I constantly get a Could not find Obex//  etc error.

I've tried pretty much everything, mostly from the Ubuntu forums, to no 
avail....

Any help out there?