I can confirm now that the audio profile is a generalized problem of bluez. I did a new install. I tried with new hardware (Pioneer BT Headset SE-CL761BT-K). Again the choice drops always to the hdp/hsp profile. If you can make it to the A2DP by chance, avoiding more then one user (like Win98 - wow, we are making progress) then the system will have sound interruptions, no bass, and the setting will not be recalled once set in a future session. As stated, even with the A2DP the sound quality is miserable. There does not seem to be a way to durably force the system to recall a BT audio profile once more than one user is logged in.