Keyboard and mouse nonfunctional for up to 15 minutes

Upon a restart of my Mac Pro this morning I was unable to use either the mouse or the keyboard. The extremely odd thing is that after a period of time (5-15 minutes) they begin working properly.
Here are some of the things I've tried to solve this problem:
• It is not a USB issue, since neither USB peripherals nor bluetooth peripherals behave differently.
• I tried starting up in safe mode, but even when I get to the safe mode login I can't type. The mouse moves, but doesn't click.
• Booting from an external, firewire drive STILL has the symptoms, so it doesn't seem to be the system itself. Yet, I CAN boot from the installer DVD and both the mouse and keyboard work immediately.
• I have restored the entire contents of the disk from a time machine backup from last night when I know things were behaving normally. No luck.
• Zapped the PRAM (multiple times). No luck.
Getting pretty worried about my machine. Any ideas of what has gone wrong or what I could do about it?

Hello HardBop60:
         Welcome to HP's forum. Seeing that whom ever is the HP's web editor can't tell the difference between a Touchsmart and a tower computer is pretty lame. I went to your computers web-page it displayed a towers break down. How wonderful . You need to contact HP Direct Support don't  worry your computer has a one year warranty. Best if you if you use on line chat versa calling least on line they have to use English. Press Ctrl ,+ ALt,+ s this will display computers information. Have your computers information handy Product number, Serial number, and operating system (Witch is windows Example: Windows 8 64 bit.).
        Inform that break down information on your computers website is for tower pcs. You like to have the correct procedures for your computer.  Please klick on Kudos if this resolves your issue. Thank you frrw.

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