Can't enable automatic login

For a few months now I have not been able to get my computer to automaticlaly log me in upon startup. Although in the "Accounts" Preference pane Automatic Login is enabled for the admin account I still get the blue screen on startup and have to type in my password.
This is very frustrating and I would like to be able to jsut have it start up on startup! Any ideas?
Thanks. TH

This seems never to have been solved so as I have finally managed to put this right on my computer I thought I'd share my result.
I used the disk utilities to repair permissions, shut down and started up the iMac again but was still presented with a log in window. I then went to the Accounts settings and Log in Options. The user was selected as automatic log in. I selected the option "disabled", then selected the user name again and it asked me for the password which I typed in. I then re-started the machine and it hasn't asked me for the password since!

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