HELP!!!! I lost my administrator password

I need aid I lost my password of administrator and I cannot enter my session helps!!!!!
that I can make to recover my password without losing all my information
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4)

sadriano, welcome to Apple Discussions
See Mac OS X: Changing or resetting an account password
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106156
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DEBUG | wrapperp | 2013/01/16 20:33:12 | read a packet STOP : 0
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DEBUG | wrapper | 2013/01/16 20:33:47 | Signal trapped. Details:
DEBUG | wrapper | 2013/01/16 20:33:47 | signal number=18 (SIGCHLD), source="unknown"
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STATUS | wrapper | 2013/01/16 20:33:47 | JVM exited in response to signal SIGKILL (9).
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STATUS | wrapper | 2013/01/16 20:33:47 | <-- Wrapper Stopped
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