I have managed to lock myself out of my macbook pro only 2 hours after purchasing it .....:/ how do I unlock it?

I have managed to lock myself out of my macbook pro only 2 hours after purchasing it..................... was playing around with the profile info, eeeeeeeeeeeeeek ! How do I fix this now?

Did you set a password?
If you didn't just press enter.
If that doesn't work you can reset your password by following the instructions on this link http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsu pport.apple.com%2Fkb%2Fht1274&ei=KFBWTu2PG47fgQfUx-SMDA&usg=AFQjCNHRcV70YpDn2AVm 9t8b0Sc-bjYSJg

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I managed to lock myself out.

I'm almost afraid to ask this, but:
I have a MacBook Pro and I have OSX 10.4.6. I'm using the the security vault. When I try to log in, I get an message window saying "You are unable to log in to the user "michaelmorgan" at this time. I can get to the master password and reset the password, but even when I do, it still gives me the same message.
I'm pretty sure that the permissions aer scrambled, but how can I get to them? I only have one account on the computer.

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A couple of things happen during a normal login to a "Filevault" account - the user is authenticated with the "login password" allowing them to log in, and the home directory contained in the encrypted sparse image is unlocked with the "Filevault" password and mounted so that their "home" is ready to logged in to. By default for "Filevault", the "login password" is the same as the one used to unlock the disk image (which makes Filevault convenient, but potentially less secure than storing data on a stand-alone encrypted disk image, but that's another story).
I'm not up on the situation in "Tiger", but in "Panther", the "Accounts" pref pane has built in safeguards so that an "admin" can't change another user's password if the account is using "Filevault". This did not apply to the installer disk and changing the password using the utility on the installer disk only resets the "login password" and the password on the encrypted disk image remains unchanged - ie. the "login password" and filevault password may be out of sync .
In "Panther" this didn't prevent login but the user was logged in to an apparently "fresh" account because the system fails to open the encrypted disk image and just dumps the user in their default directory - maybe this has changed in "Tiger" and you get the dialogue instead...
Anyway, if that is what has happened, and assuming the ".sparseimage" isn't corrupted or anything, it should be possible to access the contents of the ".sparseimage" file by either changing the "login password" back to the old password using the installer disk, then logging in normally, or by mounting the ".sparseimage" from another account using the old password (note that this may mount the image in a less secure manner than a normal filevault log in).
In the future, when changing the password of a "Filevault" account, make sure to use the "Accounts" pref pane while actually logged in to the account.
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