Administrator user became standard now there is no way back

I have been one of the lucky souls that after upgrading from 10.4 to 10.5 my user which was had admin rights has reverted to a standard one.
Countless attempts to make it an administrator user have failed. I've logged in as root, changed the field in Account Preferences, but the setting is not saved. I have logged in as myself, then clicked the lock icon used the root user/password clicked on the make user and administrator, got the message that action will not take affect until one logs back in, but this didn't work either...
Has anyone got any thoughts? Failing this I think I might have to do a complete re-build.... It is very annoying.

OK...
The article gave me some hints... I tried to do as above but was getting invalid path errors. Then I looked at the group membership of my user and found that I no longer have the group admin (surprise, surprise) but have these other groups called _lpadmin, _appserversadm, _appserverusr....
Are these groups for real? working away on my trusty iBook 933 running OS-X 10.3 I found that my user on this machine has access to....
05:10:06 theodorevass :/Users/theodorevass-(0)-> groups
theodorevass appserverusr admin appserveradm
Is it possible that the groups file has become corrupted? Can someone check on the 10.5 install using terminal the groups their admin user has access to, and if the groups file, in /etc/group has all these groups with underscores in them?

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