Wireless recognization oddity

[Dan]

I've noticed this before, but it hasn't really affected me until just 
now: Whenever I boot FC5 with the power cable and the USB receiver for 
my wireless keyboard mouse plugged in, the wireless card is not 
recognized. The eth1 device is not created, everything acts as if the 
card is simply not there. Without those two plugged in, it works fine, 
even when i plug them in later. I will try one or the other later, but 
for either one of them to cause this seems somewhat stupid and 
Windows-ish to me. I figured this out today because usually, when I have 
the power cable and wireless devices attached, I am plug into wired 
ethernet, and when I don't, I use wireless. This has been happening 
since I installed FC5 though, I just couldn't figure out the cause.
Any ideas?
-Dan