Hidden admin account not working after updating to ML

on Lion, i created a hidden admin account called ".admin" [the dot making it hidden]. this was my only admin account. after upgrading to Mountain Lion, the password is not accepted. it typically didn't show up in the user list and i can't access it from login screen. i do see a "admin" [no dot] folder in the Users folder. but any attempts at logging in to that failed also.
i don't have any other admin accounts, so i'm not sure how to create an admin account from a standard user account.

If you need that admin account and its home directory back, I think you will have to restore from your backup, unhide the admin's home directory and then re-do the upgrade.
I think what happened is that the hidden admin's also hidden home directory was either ignored or overwritten during the update. You'd have been better off assigning it a UID below 500, hiding the UID<500 group, and moving that admin's home directory to somewhere else (/var or /opt maybe), but not making the actual home directory hidden.
some useful info (for the future) is here - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5017?viewlocale=en_US

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