Can't log on to my admin account.

Hey there!
I just got the MacBook Pro retina. I was setting it up and connected it to my iCloud account and all is going well. I decided to start using a new email address, so I switched to the new email on my iCloud account. Then I log out and when I try to sign back into my admin account, I can't, because no matter what password I try it doesn't seem to be the right password. The password for the admin account is the same for the iCloud account, so this is weird since I had literally just updated my email and password for the iCloud account.
So I'm just wondering what went wrong here?
I tried both old and new passwords, I tried resetting the iCloud password a couple of times and nothing. Even tried resetting the old e-mail which was registered before and that's now unavailable/locked out.
I'm guessing this has something to do with the iCloud mess, like my computer is now somehow just connected to that but there's no way for me to get to the old password or whatever it is that I need to get into my admin account.
What are my options here? Restarting the thing? All help will be greatly appreciated.

See
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/24/reset-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-password/ and
http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/19/change-password-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-without-knowin g-current-password/

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