No USB keyboard or mouse after a partial update

I'm in a jam, and need some help.
I have an archlinux desktop installation here, and decided to do an update since one hadn't been done for a few months.   I did a pacman -Syuw to get all the necessary files, and since there was some conflicts I fixed those up.  Also, pacman itself needed to be updated, which I did.   So at this point I only updated pacman and libreoffice (which had some plugin conflict) and the dependencies of those.
Since I figure its better to do KDE updates from the console only, I decided to log off, and do a console login so that KDE wouldn't be running during the update.  However, I accidentally did a Shutdown instead..  Which I assumed would be fine anyway, but now when it boots none of my USB devices are working.
I can go into BIOS settings, and keyboard is working fine, but as soon as arch starts loading, the keyboard and mouse are completely disabled... like there is no power getting to them.  Lights on mouse and keyboard are completely off.
I do not have a CD burner here to make a bootable CD, and this particular PC is picky about booting from a USB drive.   I'm kind of stuck. 
Oh, I CAN edit the grub config.  Keyboard is working fine at that point.  Is there anything I can add to the grub commands to force it to load usb modules?
The system does boot up, and normally I have SSH servers running, but for some reason they are not accepting connections either.  About all I can do is ping the box (from my laptop).
EDIT: Seems like the system got a new IP when it restarted, So I dont know what it's new IP address is.  Looking for it now to see if I can SSH into it.
Ok, I just noticed that there is a failure on bootup about libpcre, but that doesnt seem to stop anything.   I just found an old PS2 keyboard that I plugged in, and I can now type up until X loads, and then that keyboard shuts off too.  When it sits at the console login for about 1 second, I can begin typing, but then kdm fires up and I can no longer type anything.
Thanks.
Last edited by cjdj (2012-04-17 03:58:07)

Append "1" to the grub entry that you use to boot.  This will start the system at runlevel 1.  Login normally.  Run pacman -Syu to fully update the system.  Try reboot.
Edit: Chg runlevel
Last edited by skunktrader (2012-04-17 04:08:53)

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