Install Mavericks asks for Administrator's Password

I've been trying to install Mavericks on my MBPro. It downloads, starts to install, but at a certain point (after agreeing to Apple's rules) it asks for an administrator's password. There is no place to enter the administrator's name...and no password works. I've tried my Apple ID pwd, my login pwd and every other password I can think of. I just keep getting the dialog box with one line...Administrator's password. It's frustrating.
I've tried resetting the passwords, but nothing seems to work.
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* click the start menu
* click search
* type in firefox
* scroll down to Firefox setup 7.0.1.exe
* right click and select 'run as administrator'
The rest was 'easy as pie'. Hope this helps those that had the same trouble I did.

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