Troubles with wireless keyboard and iMac

My iMac won't recognize most of the keys on my wireless keyboard. Only several of the function keys seem to work. I've even tried replacing it with a new wireless keyboard, which worked to type in the pairing codes but also wouldn't enter any text into the password field. Since I'm stuck at the login screen and can't enter my password, I can't access any of the software troubleshooting programs that apple support recommends. I just ran an update several days ago. Could that have caused troubles?

1) You need to go into more detail as to the trouble with the wireless keyboard
2) Why can't you get a USB one? You can't order one online? Borrow one from someone?
Without some kind of text entry to enter the password this is going to be difficult.

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THAT'S IT. Sir, you have solved my problem. Thank you!!
And I feel a little silly; this will doubtless seem to an expert as if it should have been obvious all along. But isn't that always the way in hindsight?
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10-04-15 6:52:18 AM kernel IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
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10-04-15 6:52:18 AM kernel image1Size 126571008
10-04-15 6:52:18 AM kernel PMStats: Hibernate write took 3775 ms
10-04-15 6:52:18 AM kernel all time: 3775 ms, comp time: 767 ms, deco time: 0 ms,
10-04-15 6:52:18 AM kernel image 226658304, uncompressed 458993664 (112059), compressed 223746576 (48%), sum1 44b2f2dc, sum2 b54e1f71
10-04-15 6:52:18 AM kernel hibernatewriteimage done(0)
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10-04-15 6:52:18 AM kernel Wake reason = PWRB
10-04-15 6:52:18 AM kernel System Wake
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10-04-15 6:52:18 AM kernel en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140 149 153 157 161 165
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10-04-15 6:52:20 AM kernel AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1
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10-04-15 6:53:36 AM [0x0-0x25025].org.mozilla.thunderbird[839] Warning: unrecognized command line flag -foreground
10-04-15 6:53:38 AM WindowServer[423] kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
10-04-15 6:53:38 AM com.apple.WindowServer[423] Thu Apr 15 06:53:38 pluto.sunlab WindowServer[423] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
10-04-15 6:55:34 AM kernel smbfssmblookup: smbfssmbqpathinfo error = 60
10-04-15 6:55:34 AM kernel smbfssmblookup: smbfssmbqpathinfo error = 60
10-04-15 6:55:34 AM kernel smbfssmblookup: smbfssmbqpathinfo error = 60
10-04-15 6:55:34 AM kernel smbfssmblookup: smbfssmbqpathinfo error = 60
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