My escape key's broken on my keyboard, and obviously can't access those menus. Is there anyway I can get around this? (I'm not going to be able to replace the keyboard for at least a couple of weeks).

This is a key remapper program, that might work until you can replace your keyboard.

http://majorgeeks.com/KeyTweak_d4161.html

You might try to remap the code for the esc key onto the useless windows key between the ctrl & Alt keys.