maybe it's just a by-product of the HID drivers that already allow you to use the keyboard?
or maybe they've just put it in there for now in case they decide to use it later on.
with the xbox, they didn't want anyone likening it to a pc hence no keyboard/mouse/vga support as standard. 360 has all three!
thanks for being bored Hashmire!
re: the topic, iPod Shuffle 512mb works just fine (i haven't installed the optional iPod support either). highly likely this has already been mentioned, but i'm not wading through all that!