Can't get into Admin account

I came home the other day and my computer was off, meaning the power had apparently gone out. I turned it back on and everything seemed normal when I got to the login screen. I put in the password for my admin account and it started to log in like normal but then all of a sudden the screen goes black and this white text appears. It says something about Darwin at the top of the screen and asks for a login name and password. I type in the info and it says that no folder exists for my login name and it was logging me in as "/" or something close to that. Well I managed to figure out that typing exit gets me back to the main login screen. I signed into to one of the other accounts on the computer, and it worked fine (which is how I'm typing this now). I looked in the Users folder and strangely, the 2 non admin accounts had one folder each, but my admin account had four, named Admin 1, Admin 2, etc. I searched the Apple website for similar problems but couldn't find anything useful. Any ideas?

I'm not sure how much this may help.
Problems with lost Admin account, or
Restore admin user status.
If your admin user loses admin status for whatever reason (and it has happened to a few people), and you do not have a second admin account, then try the following:
Boot into single-user mode. At the prompt enter:
mount -uw /
nicl -raw /var/db/netinfo/local.nidb -merge /groups/admin users your-username-here
Press RETURN after each command.
To restart in OS X enter:
reboot
I recommend you write down these commands in a monospaced font. Be sure to carefully note where there are spaces in the command line.
Because of the abnormal shutdown I also suggest you do the following:
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger, and 4.1 for Leopard) and/or TechTool Pro (4.6.1 for Leopard) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

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