Can't login after installing Leopard

I just installed 10.5 onto an intel Mac Mini from the DVD. Everything went smooth until i restarted. the only user is now "other". It is asking me to login and no username or password is working. I followed the help I found on the site and reset the password with the reset password utility on the desk - still nothing. I have tried lots of different combinations including "System Administrator (root)" name (in many different combinations!). Nothing is working yet.
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what kind of install did you do? an upgrade and install, an archive and install or an erase and install?
what help did you follow? what exactly did you do? if it's showing "other" at the login screen it must mean you activated root password from the install DVD, is that right? when you try to log in as root you need to enter "root" (no quotes) as the user name, not "System administrator(root)".

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Cannot Login after installing Leopard

Hello,
I just installed Leopard, and after restarting I had the "blue screen" problem. I followed the instructions (removing the the "ApplicationEnhencer.bundle" file from the troubleshooting section on the Apple website), and after restarting, I was able to acces the login page.
After entering my personal password, I had the following message: "you have to restart you computer by pressing the start switch for several seconds".
The only thing I can do is to login via other users of this computer but I cannot access my own account anymore!
Can somebody help me?
Regards,
Lins.
P.S: here is the error report:
Tue Nov 13 16:19:49 2007
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x0000000000000010 PC=0x00000000293802C4
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x1e5f6280)
PC=0x293802C4; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x00000010; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x2938028C; R1=0x1E5EB6C0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x2938028C 0x29380C98 0x2938236C 0x29382E9C 0x002CD684 0x002D39A4
0x002D3D38 0x0030924C 0x000B24C8 0x00000000
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xF0080090
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
at.obdev.KUC(1.2.47)@0x2937c000->0x29392fff
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x1e5f6280)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x296f8000)
PC=0x90F7B89C; MSR=0x0200D030; DAR=0x00134004; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x90FB0D40; R1=0xF0080090; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
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Mac OS version:
9A581
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.0.0: Tue Oct 9 21:37:58 PDT 2007; root:xnu-1228~1/RELEASE_PPC
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Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
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After installing Leopard, my G4 will no longer boot in OS 9.22.
(Classic still works, but I need it to boot in OS 9.)
Any clues about what the Leopard installer might have done to my machine that rendered OS 9 boot unusable? (And what can I do to fix it?)
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G4 Gigabit Ethernet
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anamorphis wrote:
Hi everyone.
I'm getting a strange Finder behavior on my Intel iMac (not the newest version) after installing Leopard. The thing is, after instalation, when I start the computer, the top bar on the screen starts blinking, and there's no way to open a Finder window. And it stays like that forever! I tried to open Finder from the Dock, but the blue dot of the active programs blinks 3 or 4 times and then disapears. Plus, the only way to access the Apple logo on the corner to switch the computer off or restart it, is by opening one other program from the dock (in this case I have Safari running), because this way the top bar stops blinking.
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