Administrator password not accepted

Please help!
My administrator password is not accepted. When trying to delete an internet plugin, I was prompted for my administrator password. I entered it in but I was greeted with 'You must type an administrator's name and password to make changes in finder' it did not tell me that my password was incorrect. I tried again a couple of times without any luck.
I have fiddled about and found that I can change my password and the hint in system preferences but it still always comes up with the same message when I try to make any other amendments.
I then installed my leopard disk, restarted the computer and held the 'C' key. this gave me the opportunity to change the password, which I did. I still got the same message when I attempted to make any changes.
After a couple of attempts of completely changing the password with the Leopard disc, I tried using the Tiger disk that came with the computer when I bought it. This has really messed it up because I now cannot get to the installation set up after holding the C key down during start up on either version of OS. It just sarts up normally.
What have I done? Any hints as to how to get i back to normal??

I have just found out what I did wrong. Somehow I had inadvertently changed my administrator to the 'System Administrator' account which was not visible in system preferences. When I did suss this out i easily managed to change my account back to an administrator. Phew!

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