Keyboard non-functioning - may have deleted something essential!

Help! My keyboard has stopped working. Inexplicably, the mouse is fine, but nothing comes up when I type. I suspect that I may have deleted something essential.
I was ruthlessly deleting things off my hard drive in an attempt to make iMovie and iDVD work properly - getting rid of unused printer drivers, etc. - and I'm afraid I might have deleted something I shouldn't have. Everything worked fine until I tried to type a title into iDVD, at which point the program promptly shut down. I double-clicked the Keyboard and Mouse control panel, and the system folder promptly closed (I could open the other control panels without issue). I tried to do a restart in safe mode, and the shift key seemed to work to get that going, but I couldn't type in my password in the log-in screen!
I assume I will have to reinstall system software (which will do away with all that nice free space I created), but how do I do that when the CD-eject button is on the keyboard and I can't type my password?
I will appreciate any help!!
eMac Mac OS X (10.4.1) 7.01 gig free hard disk space

hi there-
if the shift key seemed to work to get into safe mode, but wouldn't work once logged in, the keyboard should work to boot to the install disk. simply put in the install disk number one (make sure it is for the current operating system) and hold down the c during startup. do disk repair beforehand, and make sure it fixes all errors, before attempting to reinstall. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214 once you proceed in the installer, make sure you select the macintosh hd as the destination, then choose archive and install, preserving users and network settings. complete instructions are in this article. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120 good luck to you.

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