Can't use MS keyboard to change startup sequence

I'm using a MS Ergonomic Natural Keyboard 4000 with my Mac Pro (10.6.1); I can't select alternate sequences during the startup (Option to choose the startup device, or Cmd-Shift-Option-Delete to automatically select a FW external drive).
One place told me that third-party devices weren't recognized early enough in the startup sequence to change the startup drive, this is sort of what MS also told me, they said I needed to make sure the USB keyboard option (or something similarly named) was activated in the BIOS…(do Macs even have BIOS?)
Anyway if someone knows of a workaround (other than changing the startup drive in the System Preferences) that would be great.

That ability is reserved for Macs that don't already have a built-in optical drive.
I bet you probably looked at some of the guides online telling you to edit a plist file that supposedly unlocks the ability to create a bootable USB drive on a Mac that has a SuperDrive. But that's all it does. It doesn't change anything else about the process of Boot Camp Assistant creating the partition and requiring installation be done with the SuperDrive. All that modification does is literally "un-gray" a checkbox.
Is it annoying that the SuperDrive must be used? No doubt, especially since this restriction was in not in place for older Macs. This is something that Apple would have to address via an SMC or other update, but the odds of that happening are less than those of you winning the Power Ball. It's a restriction you'll have to live with, unless you want to "upgrade" to a Retina display model.

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