Forgot Password Only have install disks for 10.4 and disk #2 for 10.5

Question

Hello,
I was playing around on my macbook last night and changed my password to a password that i always use for just about everything and when i changed it worked because i had to logout cause something froze and safari was really messed up so when i logged in the new password worked but a few minutes later i was trying out some really old app from like 10.2 or something like that and it froze everything except finder so i tried to force quit and that wasn't working so i logged out and that froze too. So then i had to hold the power button down to shut it down and after i got it back up and running i tired to login with the new password i made earlier and it rejected it. I tried my old password and some really old passwords i tried caps and some of the words capital and it still didn't work. So then i was reading some other forms of people that forgot their password and stuff like that and most of them said to boot up with the install disk so i did and i did the password reset utility and it still didn't work. It said this volume can not be found or something like that. Then i realized that i had the disks from 10.4.0 and I tried to find my 10.5.0 ones and i only found disk #2 and for some reason it wasn't working when i tried to do it so then i was reading more forms about booting up in single user mode my doing Apple-S and i typed in the codes and they didn't work cause they were for 10.4.x and i heard they changed something like that in the security update that i installed so i have a big problem. I either need some hacked way of doing it or a new updated code. I will try to find my other disk and try to do it again but i know where it is its all the way up in canada at a place i own there . If there is a new code that would be Great. Or if there is some way i can download Mac OSX and burn it onto a CD or DVD because i am on the windows vista side of my mac now typing this. If anyone can't figure this out i will soon call apple. Thanks for helping. Bye
Danny

Answer 1

G'day Danny.
Single User Mode will work in Leopard, unless the MacBook has been properly secured, or corrupted in a more fundamental way. Were the instructions from a credible source? I am reluctant to post the instructions here, as they are a powerful weapon in the hands of the unscrupulous.
I am confused about one thing: the Leopard retail distribution usually comes on one DVD. The only time people get two disks (AFAIK) is the System Restore disks that come with a computer that ships with Leopard. From the sound of things, yours shipped with Tiger.
I don't recommend downloading OS X. You never know what you might be getting!