After reinstalling OS 10.5 I can't log into my iMac PPC isight

Yesterday booted from a firewire drive, erased my imac's harddrive and reinstalled os 10.5. Then I used the migration assistant to restore all my settings from a time machine back up. Once it was all finished it booted to a login screen but wouldn't accept my password. I've tried every password I've ever used and nothing worked. Then I tried booting in single user mode with no success, tried to boot from my fire wire drive with no success, tried removing ram and resetting my pram in case their was an open firmware password set (I don't remember ever setting one) but nothing happens when I try to reset the pram. I tried switching keyboards to see if that was the problem (two apple keyboards, one the came with the imac) but nothing changes. I've been searching forums all morning for a solution but they all say to either boot from an external drive or in single user mode and I can't do either. Any help would be appreciated.

Resetting or changing an account password:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1274
This is also useful:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3463233&olo=email
If it's running Mac OS X 10.6.8 or earlier, insert a Mac OS X install DVD, restart with the Option key held down, click on it, and use the Reset Password utility.
If it's running Mac OS X 10.7 or newer, restart with the Command and R keys held down, open the Terminal, and use the resetpassword command:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4101

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