Password doesn't work after time machine recovery!

My hard drive failed. Got a new one installed. Re-installed Mac OSX 10.4 from my original disks. Then upgraded to Leopard with my upgrade disk. Used Migration Assistant to bring over my old files etc from Time Machine... When I used Migration Assistant it said something about usernames being the same or something so I just renamed it as per one of the options. Everything seemed fine until I shut down my computer, restarted it, and my password no longer works. What the ****?? When I attempt to reset the password using the OSX 10.4 disk it says that I cannot and that I do not have permission. When I try to boot from the Leopard upgrade disk I cannot do so, it just spits out the disk and boots from the HD and I'm back to square 1. Argh! Any suggestions??

BTW, correct password hint is there, just doesn't access computer.

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