Corrupt Administrator Password?

When I try and log into my MacBook (which uses Snow Leopard), the computer 'shakes its head'. Here's the rest of the story....
I recently installed a new hard drive and restored my backup from Time Machine. I have two users on my system. I now cannot log into my administrator account but can log into the 'guest' account.
I have tried every possible account combination I have used (there haven't actually been many - 3 in total) that I have used on this MacBook before. I have also run Disk Utility on the new hard drive that I have restored but it continues to have disk permission errors that it keeps repairing. It doesn't seem to 'zero' the number of disk errors, even though I have run it 3 times.
How can I fix this problem and log into my administrator account? or do I have to create a new one and restore my backup manually from Time Machine? The key data I want to restore are my documents and iTunes files; the rest of the 'stuff' (eg. settings) I can set up myself manually.
Thank you in advance for your guidance.

I can't answer you directly, but I can tell you:
1. Account passwords aren't stored in a keychain, they're in NetInfo.
2. The FileVault master password is in /Library/Keychains/FileVaultMaster.cer and FileVaultMaster.keychain
3. If you delete the files in (2) you can still access FileVault images, all you've lost is the master backdoor to them.
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