Keyboard & trackpad not active when booted!

Got a white 2.0GHz Intel Core2Duo 13" with 1GB RAM and OS 10.5.8.
The keyboard and trackpad are suddenly locked when the the machine is booted. The cursor is in the same place after restart - not movable - but not frozen either. Because when I insert a CD or DVD it autostart the respective item, and the cursor becomes the spinning beach ball for some seconds....iow. NOT frozen. None of the keyboard buttons will work except the on/off button. So I thought for a minute that the keyboard was physically shortcutted. But upon restart, I was able to run a PRAM reset (Alt-Cmd-R-P) - also ejecting a DVD, that would NOT eject when fully booted....
So it must be a software related problem. Or is it a "panel lock" or "key lock" function that I've activated accidentally???
Thanks for any input on this. I will in the meantime try to restart from the OS DVD.

Some additional info:
System profile tells me it's a MacBook 1,1 with a Intel Core Duo (not a Core2) - if it makes any difference.
Well, I booted up from a Leopard install DVD, and everything related to keyboard and trackpad works. Run Repair Disk Permissions, and Verify Disk - just when I'm at it!
Restart from internal disk again....Nope. No keyboard or mouse action....
Time the reinstall the complete OS perhaps.

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