Keychain and password problems

I have an older macbook using OS X 10.8.4. I am having two different issues that might be related but probably not. The first issue is that my keychain is not prompting to save or saving the majority of my login/password information. I have gone to the Safari >preferences> auto login unchecked then rechecked the box to auto login but it has not solved the problem. Is there another step to take?
The other issue is that I was using lastpass to save information, I reset Safari and when I did my password to lastpass disappeared. Now I can't remember the password and it is not on my keychain. Is there another place the password could be? Is there a way to make the keychain remember all of your password/log in information?
Thanks for help with this problem.

Thanks for that, I deleted all references to keychains in /Library and logged back in, added a keychain for my username and all is now well.
However, I've just started using MS Entourage (as the Mail program was also freaking out like Safari) and it seems that when I tell this application to save my mail password to the Keychain, it throws a spanner in the works...
Might start a new thread on this one...
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FYI to all the helpful folks here (and any looking to shut their jet engine off as well): Flashing the BIOS did the trick.
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