Is it possible to boot into the OSX DVD Without a keyboard?

Hi everyone,
Today I found a WORKING 800mhz PowerMac G4 Quicksilver (2002) at my local thrift shop for $15. Hard Drive was skipping and I had a 160GB hard drive laying around, so took the bad hard drive out and now it works, at least it has been. But heres the problem. My USB keyboard (My only one, btw) doesn't work when I start it up so when I press the power button and hit C nothing happend because my USB keyboard isn't working with it for some reason. Is there a way I can boot into the Mac OS X Startup disc to install the OS without a keyboard?
Thanks,
Erik

Hi, might also try this...
reset FW bus, same goes for USB reset...
Reset the Firewire bus
If your Firewire or USB isn't recognizing any device. A solution which has worked for some whose hard drive became invisible in 10.4 was simply to follow these four steps to reset the Firewire/USB bus:
1. Shut the machine down.
2. UNPLUG the power lead to the computer and any firewire/USB drive or devices.
3. leave it for 10 minutes.
4. Connect back up and reboot.
http://www.macmaps.com/firewirebug2.html

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