Keyboard DOA

I just spent 14 hours migrating over the air from my old powerbook to my new MBA.
The keyboard on the MBA seems to be largely DOA. Enter doesn't work. I need to click on default buttons. CommandQ doesn't work. Command - tab DOES work to switch apps. I can't type and letters in any documents.
Is there some dumb setting that got tweaked in migration, or do I just have a bad unit?

Erik:
you can check on migration issues vs doa by creating a 'new user' and setting up your MBA for that test user (you can eliminate him later) from scratch. Make him an admin user.
Restart the computer and login as that user and see if your problems still exist. If the problems don't exist for that user, then the migration and the apps and preferences it introduced are the problem.
When I got the MBA, I created my settings from scratch ... partly due to previous migration problems.
also: migration from any ppc system to the newer intel system creates problems due to introducing ppc onto the intel system. I did my ppc > mbp transition twice... first by migration and all of the problems it introduced, and then an erase and install to get rid of the ppc induced problems. I then redid all my settings from scratch and copied over only intel compatible apps and my data--ensuring that I did not put any non-universal apps onto my intel system.
two: there is no enter key on the MBA, they made the key to right of the right command key into a second option key, just as they eliminated the numlock key and the numbers.
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