Administrator username and password don't work

ok , I have a PowerMac G5, I am the only one who uses the computer, I set up a standard accoun and a admin account, now neither work for username or password, I can't even install my updates. I've tried every combination of usernames and passwords I've ever used, but nothing, any ideas

I have the same problem, but Disk Utility can't even find my hard drive! At "select the disk for which you want to change the password", there's a blank space.
Same thing for the Installer. I want to Erase & Install (have backed up my stuff to another harddrive via FireWire Target Mode), but the Installer can't find a hard drive, it can only find its own installer disk...
The strangest thing is that this morning, after 2 days of not being able to login and restarting and having no response from the computer, all of a sudden it opened with our normal desktopimages, as if all was well! However, it again too much time to do an operation, and when I restarted it, it was back at the question mark, next time at the black screen with white letters, up to what I just wrote above.

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