Wireless Entertainment 8000

Today I installed my new "Wireless Entertainment Desktop 8000". This set
includes the Keyboard 8000 and the Lasermouse 8000. I run a DELL Dimension
9200 PC for a while and had a Logitech Wireless Desktop set before that
runned without any problems.

What I was looking forward to was the navigation pad on the keyboard and the
backlightet keys of it - and I liked the design of the devices. And to make
this clear: the Wireless Entertainment Desktio 8000 set is very, very
expensive on the market - about twice the price of my "old" Logitech set.

My joy was blown away quite quickly...

First the material-finish of both devices is very poor and looks just cheap
to me. There are sharp plastic edges at the mouse or the mouse-keys on the
keyboard just lock if you do not press them in their exact center. The keys
don´t have a clear pressure point and move a bit hard.

But that´s the small part of my disappointment!

The worst is that the entire mechanism is not capable to handle the sleep
mode (where you don´t shut down the system but send it in hybernation mode -
sorry, don´t know the correct word for it). Every time the system wakes up
from sleep mode, both devices have lost connection to the computer and it´s
time to reboot.

With the Logitech stuff I could move the mouse to wake the system up - this
is far away of the capabilities of the Microsoft stuff.

And there are many more situations where especially the keyboard looses
contact to the system. While working about 4 hours today with that stuff, I
had to go and press the reconnect buttons on the bluetooth device and
keyboard and mouse for about 8 times.

Then the backlinght of the keyboard behaves strange. It does not go off when
the keyboard is set down on the desk and noone is around - it keeps glowing.

The navigation pad is a good thing, but it´s driver does not allow to change
the "speed" of it (how far the ponter moves when wiping once over the pad).
There is a place in the control panel that is made for it - but changing the
value of that parameter has no effect. I have 1920x1200 resolution and it
takes 7 or 8 moves to bring the pointer from one side to the other of the
desktop.

After all, I am so disappointed that I think about reinstalling my old
Logitech set with which I was more happy......

Am I the only one having those problems?????