Slayer, yes I had the box checked, but it looks like RandyT was right, Mame will not accept direct input from the wiimote. There is a workaround however, setting the wiimotes as joysticks and setting Mame to accept input from joysticks as lightgun input instead of the mouse.
Mark, I will post a guick guide once everything is working well.
DrVenture, I only pair the wiimotes when I turn the pc on. I leave them on all day with the pc and batteries are never an issue.
The whole process only takes a few seconds. I use the bluesoeil drivers, and from the bluesoeil program I double click the giant icon in the center to start a search for bluetooth devices, and then hit 1 and 2 on the wiimote simultaneously and everything is up and running. Then in glovepie it is as simple as opening and hitting run.
All in all about it's about a 20 second process, but I will admit even only having to do it once a day it is still kind of annoying.
And I'm not sure what you meant when you said the wiimote won't stay paired with the pc. Does it randomly get disconnected? Or did you just mean you have to reconnect every time you power cycle your pc?