After upgrades iMac will not completely restart.. lost please help

Hi, I am new to the forum but I have been scouring the net for an answer to my problem. I have found some similar problems but nothing exact so I decided to post to make a deadline. Please help.
Yesterday night I got one of those apple software updates. I cant remember what it was for but it was fot 3 different things nothing out of the ordinary. Once they were installed I had to restart my computer. I did this and when I did my computer booted up and froze at the blue screen after the white/grey apple screen and will go no further.
Heres where it gets a little different from other posts I have found. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse so I cannot run the start up disks or get to safe mode. I bought a different usb mouse and keyboard today and am now able to put disks in and out of the disk drive by holding down the left button during start up. The only problem the keyboard came with software that needs to be installed to make it work. So it is still impossible to connect to a keyboard. So I still cant hold shift, control or c to get to safe mode or run my mac disks.
Im not sure where to go from hear. I have a seagate external harddrive backing everything up so hopefully I didnt lose everything. Any help would be great I am lost.
Thanks for your time

When you get the new keyboard, start up from Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
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5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk.
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