Gaining root/making standard user an admin without using CD or Single user mode?

Hi.
I just installed (upgraded to) Snow Leopard on my 2009 macbook pro from CD. WHen I pooked around in my fresh install, I noticed that I was no longer an admin user, instead a standard user.
I retsrtaed from the Snow Leopard install CD and went to reset password utility... and here's the stupid part. I also added a firmware password. Don't ask me why I thought this was a good idea at the time. It clearly wasn't.
So now I'm back in that fresh new snow leopard install, where my resetting of the standard users password only gave the standard user a password, but did not elevate that user to admin, and no way of starting from the CD again.
There's a root user, I do not know what the password is. The standard user can not sudo. I'm not afraid to work in terminal. Without keboard access to this, I can not make it a target computer via firewire either.
I'd really rather not have to go to the apple store again for this, I've been there twice recently changing batteries and hard drives, and I had to get my snow leopard CD elsewhere as they didn't have any.

SOLVED IT!
So, I'm leaving this here in case anyone else scatterbrains themselves into the same situation.
Restart computer, while holding OPTION key down.
A lock screen will come up asking for the firmware password. After you have entered this, you can select to start from the OS dvd.
Once started from the DVD you can remove the firmware password (if you want) and even better, you can reset the passwords of other user with the password reset utility.
Make sure to add a passwird to the ROOT account.
Restart as normal. Then in settinggs, find your user, and passwording in root to change these settings, make that user an admin.
Ta-da, done.

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