Wiimotes and madness

I was so excited when I got my refurbed Wiimote, wireless sensor bar, and bluetooth dongle in the mail so I could get started testing ebears with the holy grail of input devices. Unfortunately it's not been the perfect marriage of technologies so far, getting and keeping the Wiimote connected to the PC seems very error prone (still testing different driver and bluetooth stack configurations) and the data coming from the Wiimote itself isn't as user friendly as I'd like nor is it obvious how I should use it, but nothing is:)