Hi Bob. Go a reply from mdfly, the transceiver supplier. They were very apologetic but didn't know what the issue was.
In any case after lots off fiddling I installed Toshiba BT stack and this fixed the issue. So it's poor MS software that causes the COM port designation issue.
That said...this is Toshiba software is not freeware, so I need to source either a cheap or free BT stack software.
Anyone?