With so many individual solutions to pairing, I wonder what's really going on.

One says to flash and pair before restoring saved data. Another says to use the keyboard pairing option in Control Panel. Yet another says he's had no trouble at all.

It all makes me think there may be differences in the machines themselves apart from the OS, that may be either in hardware or buried in the system BIOS by changes during the N800's manufacturing run.

As for me, I'm going to wait until OS2008 V1.1 comes out before I try it again.