Goes into SafeBoot, Password doesn't work.

This morning I was on my MacMini, when it started acting buggy. I'd go to quit an application, and it would ask me if I wanted to Log Out.
I re-started, and it booted up in SafeBoot. But it wouldn't accept the password for either admin account. Even the log in window was buggy: I'd have to click on the Log In button to try to enter the password, not just hit the return key.
Here's where it gets weirder.
I took it with me to work, and it booted up and worked fine. I took it back home, and the same problems came back.
The only variable between the work and home scenario is the monitor. At work, where it's working, it's connected to an Apple Cinema Display. At home it's connected to a ViewSonic LCD via the VGA adapter. It's been working fine with that monitor for several months.
At home I shut down, turned the Viewsonic off, re-started. When I turned the monitor back on, I found that it had booted up in SafeBoot.
Help?! While at work, I ran all updates, ran disk utility, fixed permissions, and was able to back up my data.

sign into apple from my computer
Do you mead sign into the Apple on-line Store or into iTunes from  your computer (what you are doing on the phone to update and purchase apps)?  These are 2 different things and can have different ID and or passwords.

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