Installing Applications not requiring user name and password?

Hi, I'm experiencing the bug that everyone is experiencing where my suer doesn't have administrative rights to my computer. But I seem to be operating fine.
The question I have is, should I be able to install applications without a username or password? When I just installed Adobe Flash Player 9 on my computer (downloaded from Adobe) it didn't require a username or password. Has anyone else experienced this? I have always been asked for it in the past. What is up with that?

This was an fresh install of Leopard without any historical data. I did restore my backed up my documents folder once leopard was installed but that was it. It seemed this all started when I tried to install some software and discovered that I no longer had an administrative user for my computer. Regardless it does concern me that there is a way for software to be installed into Leopard under the right circumstances. I finally was able to get my user back to admin rights via a workaround where I enable the "root" user. Anyway I finally gave up and went back to Tiger (luckily have been doing regular back-ups of my data). I am going to report these bugs to Apple or try to anyway. I'm just frustrated that things went so bad so quickly and I don't feel like I was doing anything out of the ordinary with my computer. I have done first installs of mac OS's the week they came out in the past and have never seen anything like this.

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