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Just some background info:
I have had a mac mini for 2 years now and I backup to an external hard drive using Time Machine. My wife just got a new Macbook Air and I wanted to make sure her she was covered with Time Machine, but without having to unplug my external hard drive or buy a new one exclusively for her. I also don't want to pay the money for a Time Capsule as I already have a fantastic router. I read that I could accomplish what I want using Mac OS X Server and it's centralized Time Machine service.
Well I paid $20, installed OS X Server, created her a user account and enabled the Time Machine Service. I left all other Server services disabled as far as I know... Then I (foolishly?) decided to wipe my external drive with my mac mini's time machine backups figuring it may be best to start with a freshly formatted drive when setting this up. So I formatted my external drive, and started to do my 1st initial backup for my mac mini. I only have about 60GB to backup and it was hanging 1/4 done for hours so I figured something was wrong. I stopped the backup and decided to reboot. After rebooting, I'm prompted to login to my wife's account. This is strange because 1) My mac mini usually auto logs into my account 2) I've never logged into her account on my mac mini. 3) I never intended to have an account for her on my mac mini. So now I have no idea how to login to my mac mini using my username. I tried typing in the password I created for her on OS X server but it says "Your account does not have a valid home directory. Contact your system administrator for more information". All I see is my wife's name and the option to login to her... Which I can't. The only other options I get are Sleep, Restart, and Shut Down. I'm freaking out right now, how can I change the user to my user? Or as the administrator? I can't get into my mac at all right now.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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