Upgraded from Snow Leopard to ML, now cannot login!

Hello,
I installed a new 1TB drive in my Mac Pro today. All I have is a Snow Leopard DVD so I did a fresh install of that to the new HD, and then upgraded to Mountain Lion using a burned DVD from another Mac. After installing it restarted and it came to my login screen, it will not let me login using what I know is the right password. I found a page with instruction on how to get passed this using command prompt, but that too failed. Here is the page:
http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-a-Mac-OS-X-Password-When-You-Can't-Log-In
Luckily I still have my original drive that works perfectly, but I'm need more disk space. I need this to work. I have been working on this for 10 hours. I'm about to drag this thing down to the Apple Store, I don't know what else to do. I fixed the login issue using the above directions earlier, than I had a login loop. So I started all over, and now can't login again. What is going on? Now this time the directions don't work at all.
Jared

So I decided to re-install my original drive which was working perfectly this morning, has not been touched all day, and guess what, cannot login!! So I decided to do a PRAM reset, and guess what? I worked! I can now login.

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It's B.S. like this that is forcing me to switch to Windows 7 which remain as is and get updates until 2020.
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