New Mac Pro Owner - In Trouble - Help!

Is there a way to open the SuperDrive disc drawer without the OS or the keyboard?
I had installed Boot Camp and was doing the Windows install, and I had the two keyboards I've had hooked up (the standard one that comes with the Mac Pro and this ergonomic keyboard I'm actually used to by Kinesis), and after I placed the Windows install disc in the drive and hit continue, after it went through all its loading and got to the point where it wanted me to hit Enter to set up Windows (or F3 to exit), neither keyboards were able to be recognized.
I did try plugging in my Windows PC's keyboard, but, uh, at this point there ain't no plug and play, and it wasn't seen either.
So all I could do is hit the power switch and then start it up again - but before powering up unplug the other keyboards and have only the standard Mac Pro keyboard connected, but apparently with that Windows Install CD in the SuperDrive and the Mac in whatever mode where it thinks it's installing Windows, I just get right back to the Windows setup, and again I can't send an Enter or even an F3 to escape.
My theory is that if I can just start up Leopard again and be running in a one keyboard mode with the standard keyboard, then the Windows install might work and see the keyboard.
At long last I am getting away from Windows,and now it is coming back to bite me and actually has me unable to use my spiffy new Mac Pro. Vindictive, eh?
If nobody has any helpful advice, I will of course call Apple Care folks tomorrow when they are open.
Sigh...
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Apple

Thanks for the system preferences advice. Yeah, when I'd go to start up tomorrow evening I'd be wondering why I'd have to hold down the Opt key to get to OS X...
My tricks to try to get the Windows Setup to see the keyboard didn't work. Even tried going with just a PC keyboard connected, booting into OS X to make sure it was seen there, then running the Boot Camp assistant to install Windows again.
The Windows Setup just doesn't see any keyboard plugged in to any USB port. Period.
Dang Windows...
Thanks,
Apple

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