Apple Bluetooth Keyboard (no fsck?)

I just bought an Apple Bluetooth Keyboard and find that I can no longer run /sbin/fsck -y when rebooting to repair the boot disk.
Apparently the system doesn't load Bluetooth earlier enough in the boot process to use the keyboard for simple commands. (So I imagine I can't do a PRAM/NVRAM reset either.)
Also holding down the C key to run DiskWarrior no longer works (i.e. it won't boot from the DiskWarrior disk).
There must be a way to run these without having to reboot twice if the system freezes (which on rare occasion it does). (i.e. First hard restart to access Disk Utility to choose the DiskWarrior startup disk and the second reboot to actually run DW.) Rebooting with the option key down has never worked for me to choose startup disks. (10.3.9 on an upgraded G3 B/W)
And the only way (at present) for me to run Disk Utility on my main drive is to boot from another drive. So again it takes two reboots.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Hi Ron,
Apple released a Bluetooth firmware update that resolved these issues. Run 'Software Update' located in 'System Preferences' and install all of the latest updates and firmware. This should resolve the problem that you're having.
Also is your computer using a D-Link bluetooth dongle or inbuilt Bluetooth?
Hope this helps,
Stu

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