Thank you everyone, what has been months of mind torturing research and failure has finally come together. I should have been a little less indignant and asked for help sooner. With a few package updates and tweaks, and plantguy's .deb package, I am happy to say I have btscanner working... well... the way it does. Now to figure out how to remap hardware buttons as keyboard keys in xterm and keep the On-Screen Keyboard from popping up. As for now the main hurdle of just getting btscanner to work has been accomplished. ... now on to get my WiSpy with kismet/spectools to run!