After 10.4-10.5.3 today, MBPro keyboard and trackpad entirely unresponsive

Just today I upgraded to Leopard, and installed all the updates. After one reset, two windows popped up and attempted to search for a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. As I use neither, they kept searching. My trackpad and keyboard were unresponsive. For now, I can plug in an external usb mouse to navigate, but cannot type anything. Any new updates require a typed password.

I never had this problem.
For the purpose of typing a password, you could use the on-screen keyboard
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/reference/onscreenkeyboard.html
I'm pretty sure you don't need to type a password to install it.
Let us know your progress if you can install you updates
Vic

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