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I too had the two second play, and then nothing. Had been using phone as mp3 player for about year and half with WM5. After reading this thread decided to troubleshoot and see where I could get. Using Helmi's latest Dec kitchen on a xv6700. At the moment I am listening to HTC player flawlessly through Spider Bluespoons (and definitely stereo) from a 2gig card. I had been trying different phone and headset settings (no registry edits). Unsure of what I did, but does prove that that it is possible to get great sound through the original configuration. I am trying to recreate skipping issue.
I am assuming that we are all pairing the headphones while the 6700 is in our hands. Curious if distance while pairing could play a part, don't know enough about BT to know why it would. I recall I had an issue when trying to use them a few days ago that I had to get a few feet from the phone before it worked right, but forgot about it til now)
At the moment cannot recreate skipping issues (working great when paired each time)

Here is things I do know to add to the general list on a working pair:

BT phone portion connects no matter order of whether phone BT on first or headphones (worked this way even with skipping issues) although have no visual or audible indication of pairing, but will voice dial from headphones (although haven't really tested out phone functionality).

Phone BT must be on first for headphones to pair. Headphones must sometimes be made discoverable to pair (but not always) . Powered down headphones and soft reset phone, still works past 10 minutes.

Pause function works immediately, forward and back have about 10 second lag.

Update:
Next day, had same issue with two seconds then skipping, pausing...
after 10 minutes of different things with no success, found that I could force pairing with stereo portion by holding selection for headphones in Bluetooth Settings> "Devices" and selecting "Set as Wireless Stereo". This did not solve issue, but then kept BT on phone on, turned off headphones, and returned them on making them discoverable. Instantly solved skipping issues but unsure if any portion of this actually is what did it, but will keep this updated next time it occurs to see if repeatable.