using skype with a bluetooth headset

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

I'm to get skype working with my bluetooth headset

I managed to get it paired using blueman-applet and even get audio on it from mplayer using:
player -ao alsa:device=bluetooth ~/Music/When\ I\ Grow\ Up.flac

I setup a .asoundrc file containing:

pcm.bluetooth {
    type plug
    slave {
	pcm "bluetooth_hw"
    }
}

pcm.bluetooth_hw {
    type bluetooth
    device 00:11:22:33:44:55
    profile "auto"
}

And skype seems to know the bluetooth headset showing both bluetooth and
bluetooth_hw devices (mic and speaker) but when I try to use them I get the
sound output in the spears instead of the headset.

As this is a 64bit system I even tried extracting 
/usr/lib32/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_bluetooth.so
/usr/lib32/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_bluetooth.so
from the 32bit packages but no difference

I tried to install pulseaudio earlier but it was in shambles (kept showing
connection refused messages and wouldn't work).

Any idea on what I'm missing?

Thanks