There appears to be a condition under which text entry boxes (for example, the root password field) will no longer accept key strokes. If you have this problem a workaround is to right click on the entry field. You will get a menu which you can escape by clicking outside the entry box. You should then have focus in the entry box.
*** Bug 74769 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Otaylor fixed mini-wm.
Mass-closing lots of old bugs which are in MODIFIED (and thus presumed to be fixed). If any of these are still a problem, please reopen or file a new bug against the release which they're occurring in so they can be properly tracked.