P965 platinum questions. Pointer problems

Alright I have a few questions. I just built a new pc using the p965 platinum board and I'm running into some issue. I was able to get windows going from a previous install. I have a logitech wireless combo mouse and keyboard and it will light up and the keyboard will work when I start the computer, however when I get to the windows login screen the lights from the wireless mouse dock go out and I cannot use the mouse or keyboard to get logged in. While those were plugged I also plugged in a wireless logitech laptop mouse and suddenly the other two came alive. I was trying to install the msi and video card drivers and when I rebooted it did the same thing, it went to the login screen and I couldn't use my mouse or keyboard. I tried the laptop mouse again but it would not work.
I cannot log into xp and I have no idea why the mouse and keyboard stop working as soon as the login screen comes up. I tried safe mode but the same thing happened. I have no idea what to do since I can't get logged into to change anything.
The next part is I cannot boot from cd and I'm not sure what button to push to force the computer to boot from cd. I have looked every where but I cannot find any information. All I want to do is to get the pc to boot from cd so I can install either vista or xp. I have gone into bios and and switched it to only boot from cd and yet it still boots into xp. Bios sees my nec dvd burner but it does not show me my samsung cd/dvd drive which is the secondary drive. Both the HD and the dvd rom drives are plugged into a pci IDE controller and they get detected on startup.
I'm not sure what to do since all I want is to reformat. I would appreciate any help. Like I said before it boots to windows and I was able to get into windows before it's just now my devices won't let me. Please help.ß

it has to be the driver, as WinXP doesnt come with Logitech driver built-in. What you need to do is to get a wired PS/2 or USB keyboard which Windows recognize. Get into Windows is your mission to accomplish. Otherwise, it's very difficult to know if your wireless keyboard/mouse are really working or not.
As you said you have access to the BIOS, you may change the boot sequence to load the CD first, then proceed with your Windows fresh instaLL. The boot list button is F8 or F10.

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