Can't Authenticate - but I'm the admin!

I have a problem. I can't authenticate anything that needs an admin password. Take software update for instance. It says 'Type an administrator's name and password to make changes to Software Update.' So I enter my name and my password and it denies it! Here is the context 1) I am the only OSX user (obviously there are other users, mysql, wheel, etc) 2) I am marked as Admin in the 'Accounts' panel.
Here's the clincher: this happened to me yesterday as well. I didn't try to find a suitable answer and I enabled the root user with NetInfo. Then I entered the user 'root' and the root password into my 'Authenticate' window and life was good. I disable the root user and went back to normal life.
But today, I cant do that. Why? Because I have to Authenticate even to enable the root user! My admin longname and shortname both do not work. (Yes, I am sure it is the right password. No, my capslock is not on...)
Any suggestions? I can program perl, so I am not afraid of the command-line if that is what I need to do. (I can still sudo stuff!)
-Nate
Powerbook G3   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

My answer was found in Oreilly's 'Mac OSX Tiger for UNIX Geeks'.
Somehow I had removed myself from the admin group.
Here's what I had to do:
sudo dscl . merge /groups/admin users myusername
I tried flushing the lookupd cache, but that didnt work, I had to restart for it to take effect.

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