Can't log in to any other user account except admin

I have one computer (out of a lab full of 36 computers) that has a problem creating additional accounts beyond the first.
I can set up multiple other accounts (either admin, standard, or managed accounts), but I can't log in to any other accounts except the admin account. Here's what I do:
1. When the computer was unpacked I set up the admin user, and automatic login of the admin user using the usual Apple first run setup windows.
2. In System Preferences -> Accounts, I click the lock and enter my admin password so I can make other accounts. This works fine.
3. I create an account and give it a password (I've tried blank passwords too).
3a. The system warns me that automatic login is turned on (set to the admin user currently). I click the "Keep Automatic Login" button. The other account is now created and all looks well; I can see it's home folder in the Users folder.
4. I switch to the Login Options view, and choose that other account from the automatic login popup menu.
4a. The system prompts me for the account password. This is where the problem happens.
4b. On 35 of the computers, this works fine. One 1 computer, the system warns me that "You did not enter the correct password for your user account." I can click OK there, but nothing I enter for the password works.
I also tried logging out from the admin user, and I simply can not log in to any other account. I've tried one letter passwords; I've tried blank passwords; I've tried variations on account names; I've tried all-caps; I've tried all-lowercase. I can log in to the admin account with no problems; I can set up as many other accounts as I like, but I can't use any of them.
Any ideas? Should I just wipe the hard drive and re-install? That's certainly a viable option, but it's baffling me why it's only this one out of 36 computers having the problem.

Smells like a corrupted OS installation. Two options. Erase & Install or hook it up to a good machine, via target disk mode, and clone the booted machine, using something like Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper!, etc., after erasing and reformatting the calcitrant machine, and see if that fixes things.

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