I am locked out of my mac mini what can I do?

Hello,
After bringing my Mac mini home and starting up with a foreign language which I managed to change to english, but found when the screen saver came one and I went to get back in I could not as it did not recognise my password. Apple retail that installed the snow leopard because with issues with lion and now I cannot get in. I logged on to discussions and printed off the instructions to reset the administrative password. I inserted my snow leopard disk to reset the password but it still wants the password. Is there anyway that I can override this and follow the instructions I printed.
thanks
rachealfromva

Did you do this?
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