Admin Gone

I have lost the admin rights to my MacBook, I had 1 account for me which was admin, my girlfriend one with limited rights, everything was fine til 2 days ago when all of a sudden there was another account showing up saying Other at the login screen but no recoed of it in the accounts pref pane.
Then yesterday my girlfriends account logon has gone but her files are still there and now i only have limited rights to mine and when i try to change or install anything the permission box comes up with no admin name in, when i try to put my name and password in it it say wrong combination.
Any ideas?

Why this happened I cannot say, others who intervene may ask you more to find out.
The account "other' is a name for the root account not to be confused with the start up admin or any other admin.
Go into the Utilities application, Netinformation Manager and see if the root account is enabled or not, by noting wether it presents an option to 'enable' or to 'disable'.
In general you should have root disabled but with a strong password set. Don't use root as a day to day admin. You could use the enabled root as an admin to sort out the machine only but only if you know the password for it.
Be careful using Netinfo Manager. Wrong use can wreck things. Search in the Apple KB under say 'enable root' for info on root.
On the issue of the lost admin, do a similar search on 'lost admin'. There are several detailed sets of instructions from Michael Conniff and others on the solutions. What you will find will be that the user data is still there but the Netinfo database has been bent and you can't get to it. The general approach is to use some Terminal commands to find out the ordered user numbers for the various accounts and then re create those accounts as need be using the appropriate numbers and precisely the same shortusernames. There are variants.
Kenrich, once the problem is sorted, I suggest you ensure that in addition to the main admin, you set up a reserve admin that you only use in emergency or test quarterly to see if it still works. Further set up a non admin for yourself to use for browsing and day to day work. Keep the main admin just for admin tasks. If you shy away from that because a lot of your user data is already in the lost admin account, then you could when it is rescued, demote it to a non admin, having FIRST set up a replacement main admin.

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