I cant log into my macbook, how can I fix this?

Hey guys,
I have a mid-late 2006 macbook and its using Snow Leopard, however everytime I boot up the laptop it goes to the login screen and I log in but it would look like its working but send me back to the log in screen. Whats going on? and how can I fix it?
If I have to restore the laptop, do I have to wipe the hardrive clean first? or can I just restore over it? If I have to wipe it out, how can I do it? Also I lost my Snow Leopard CD but I still have my Tiger OSX around, can I use the Tiger CD to boot the drive so I can trigger my time machine with Snow Leopard?
Phil

These seem like two different issues from the way your message reads...
1. You can't log into your user account on your MacBook Pro, and;
2. You're using your Apple ID to try to log into your user account.
Your Apple ID (which you used to log into this forum) is generally not the same as your user account ID (unless you've set them up to be the same, which would be odd).
You've verified, by logging in here, that your Apple ID is working just fine, so I'm assuming that it's your user account that you can't log into.
Either way, try here - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4798 or here - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1274.
Hope that I'm understanding your problem(s),
Clinton

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