Wireless Keyboard Lag/Delay

When my iMac wakes from sleeping after a day, it takes about 10-20 seconds for the wireless keyboard to sync before I'm able to even type in my password. I looked up this issue and found a thread that is the same exact problem but somehow they concluded it resolved at "well let's hope they fix this in a future update" and that post was in 2006.
From the post it seems the problem is that the login screen comes on first before the bluetooth wakes up and starts looking for the wireless keyboard. Is there an option now where I can make sure the bluetooth wakes up before the login screen appears? Ironically, I tried to sync the wireless keyboard to a windows pc and there's no lag- the bluetooth picks up before the login screen appears. So how can I resolve this?

Quote from: Cease on 28-December-06, 07:42:01
hi bosskiller thx for the reply
ive tried both ps/2 and usb same problem. I use low res 8x6. Ill give the typematic settings a try. My fps is normally 100 but i do experience drops in smoke grenades and on the map de_aztec. Ive tried many different drivers for my videocard but none seem to help. This is nothing new though and i never had the keyboard problem with these problems before.
do you have similar problem into some other games?

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