farmerdave,

I would recommend buying a new Wii Remote Plus from a local game store or department store.  Purchasing an older Wii Remote (without the plus) is tough because I purchased one online and it turned out to be a fake (very poor performance).  I would buy from only a trusted source and a local store might be the best bet.

I just looked and Walmart has the Wii Remote Plus on sale now for $34.42, maybe that would be a good place to start

Just remember that with the New Wii Remote Plus, using the Toshiba bluetooth stack is required with smoothboard.

Good luck!

The generic non branded usb bluetooth dongles can be used with the Toshiba Bluetooth stack, but you can only use it for 30 days and then reinstall if you want to keep using it...kind of annoying.

Smoothboard has a page you can see for more info: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1X_Q7_Da4-g2l6AaHgHZTrdzyAuPuM6UmU8zeK6aUG-k

I looked at the resellers in this forum and found these two:

http://teachwithtech.com/Bluetooth-Adapters/Bluetooth-Adapter-and-Toshiba-Software-p52.html

http://www.irpens.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=98&osCsid=qkfqqj0lil3dg54jrgmsjkteg3

Hope this helps

Also, if you have a mac, there is no need to use the Toshiba bluetooth stack as all versions of the Wii Remote and Plus will work.