Administrator account not recognized

Trying to change settings and I've been typing in the administrator account name and password and this keeps coming up: "You must type an administrators name and password to make changes to system preferences". After multiple attempts I get the "too many attempts" dialogue box. When I look at the accounts list, my account name is listed as "sandard" not "admin". I'm using an iMac with OS X 10.5.8. I've seen this question regarding MacBooks but not the iMac.

When I go to enter the new password after starting up with the leopard volume and clicking on the "other...." it asks for a user name and password. What user name do I put in? I know that the password is the new one that I set.

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Making changes in a User's account, my admin's account not recognized

Just upgraded A Quicksilver 2002 G4 to Leopard from Panther.
Used Upgrade and everything worked amazingly well. I'm the admin, my wife & daughter are users.
All three of us can log in using the names and passwords we have always used
Only trouble is: when in a user account and making system preference changes and am consequently asked for an administrator name and password, it will not accept my administration name and password - says I've entered an incorrect user name & PW.
The Admin name is in this form: XXX, Xxxx
The password is an 8-digit alphanumeric string.
Could the comma-then-space of the Admin name be throwing off my ability to make the necessary System Preference changes?
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Any help appreciated.
TIA

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