I installed Mountain Lion and can't log in as different user

I installed Mountain Lion and now I can't log out and log back in to the account that I prefer to use. It won't accept my password, even after I've reset the password for that account.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Try the action again. Post any messages that appear in the Console window – the text, please, not a screenshot.
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    Interval Since Last Report:          2118 sec
    Crashes Since Last Report:           1
    Per-App Interval Since Last Report:  24 sec
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