Mac Mini only boots to wallpaper

I have a 1.66 older mac mini that I am trying to set up but whenever it boots it only goes to a picture of the desktop, No log in screen and it only finishes about half of the loading mac osx progress bar. i ran the permissions and disk check and it is ok. tried reseting the ram running the fsck. If i leave it alone and it goes to sleep at the walpaper screen, it comes back with a bluetooth setup assistand unexpectedly quit message and will not allow me to make any selections. I think i am going to have to reinstall the os (i am ok with) but I have to wait a few days for the appropriate cd-dvd to come to me, but is there anything else i can try in the meantime?
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Yes, I'm using an Apple USB Keyboard.  I have tried the keyboard in other USB ports and the keyboard was working fine before.  I have no Ethernet connected.  Just power, video and the USB Keyboard.  I also tried it without the keyboard and have tried both video ports (HDMI and Display Port) with the same results.

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