Help, new to Mac.. iMac boot but keyboard doesn't work...

Not sure what happened but the mac would now boot to ask for password. The keyboard does not respond. Act as if it not paired. I boot with the OS cd and the keyboard works fine. So I not it's not a hardware issue.
One more note, I put a usb keyboard, and when I type the user name, it appears the keyboard has been remapped.
Anyone seen this?
thx
Jerry

A bump up! Maybe someone will see it!
Also, try using Disk Utility to do a Disk Repair, as shown in this link, while booted up on your install disk.
You could have some directory corruption. Let us know what errors Disk Utility reports and if DU was able to repair them. Cheers! DALE

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