Hi Peter ,
How this all started:
I was sitting upstairs and I wanted to drag a movie over to my ipad as I am about to fly up into Africa for a few days.
My cable was downstairs in my office and I didn't want go and get the cable. I simply started up blue tooth between ipad and PC .
I even rebooted my PC as it looked like something was wrong.
Then moved over to a google search and the I found out that its a worldwide problem.
I just couldn't believe that a Bluetooth connection between PC and ipad wasn't possible.
I love my ipad and iphone but every so often , I am reminded about how 'restrictive Apple is.
If it wasn't so limiting , I would probably give up my PC and move over to mac.
I use many different electronic devises and I transfer data around in many different ways and there is basically no limitations. I can do just about whatever I like. Apple on the other hand will control just about every move I make.
But I still love my Apple products - its juts a great pity I can use them in my engineering work.