I suddenly can't access the Root User Account

Things were working fine, then I used Disk Warrior to clean things up. Now when I enable Root User, I can't log it the account. I tried the change password and used the new PW and no joy.
I use Root when I am working on user directories and have never seen this before.
Any help or ideas would be appreciated,
DN~

silly me.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5189?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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