After Installing Leopard patch 10.5.1 all accounts are Standard

I installed the Leopard patch successfully and subsequently tried to install the new lightroom patch, but could not because it said I needed an administrator name and password. My password would not work. I checked in preferences under accounts and found that all my accounts are labeled Standard. I have no administrator account. all accounts are still there, but they are all Standard.
Does anyone have a workaround for this situation?
Anyone have the same problem?

From the Apple Knowledge Base;
Mac OS X 10.5: Administrator user changes to standard

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Haha. My appologies, I shall 'plug' my devices as oposed to 'popping' them infuture.
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In the docs that came with my Powerlogix accelerator card, I found this sentence buried:
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anamorphis wrote:
Hi everyone.
I'm getting a strange Finder behavior on my Intel iMac (not the newest version) after installing Leopard. The thing is, after instalation, when I start the computer, the top bar on the screen starts blinking, and there's no way to open a Finder window. And it stays like that forever! I tried to open Finder from the Dock, but the blue dot of the active programs blinks 3 or 4 times and then disapears. Plus, the only way to access the Apple logo on the corner to switch the computer off or restart it, is by opening one other program from the dock (in this case I have Safari running), because this way the top bar stops blinking.
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