Keychain, lost password retrieval Q

Hi,
A while ago I had a hard disk crash on my G4 powerbook. I changed the disk as it was well out of warranty. I have since purchased an external caddy for the disk and slurped off all the retrievable data, among that was a well used keychain. Because I didn't use it for a while I have only mostly remembered the password. I have enough of it in my head to reduce the search space for me, but it is still to large to do it manually. Is there a way of running something like John the ripper on it?
Mike

Further to my last post, my experience matches the "update" information on this website:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10331671-263.html
It does not let me in to the keychain that carries the lost details I have in there.
I am sure that the search space I have to search is a 1000 or 3 attempts, much too much to do by hand through the gui. Apples details do not tally with my experience of following apples steps to "recover" the keychain. I can see the entries in there, notes and login's etc, but unable to access any of them.
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