Keychain password ??? What is it?

Dear all, I have an Intel Mac with Tiger.
I have never set up a keychain password but Safari and iWeb - and also others -ask me for it regularly. If I type in my system password it is not accepted - just like any other password I have ever used. I am unable to publish my site with iWeb without the keychain and it is really unconfortable to keep on clicking "cancel" when to pop-up window appears in the middle of work.
Is it possible to set a new keychain password or convince the system that I can live without any keychain password?
Thank you in advance.
Laszlo

The Problem arrises because your Login PW and your Keychain PW are different.
Possibly you changed your Login PW in the past?
Launch Keychain Access in Applications>Utilities, find the place to reset the PW there... I'm on Leopard at the moment, which no longer has Keychain Access.

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You can change the password for your keychain at any time. However, if you want your default keychain to be unlocked automatically when you log in, make sure your keychain password is the same as your Mac OS X login password.
If your Mac OS X login password is not the same as your default keychain password, you'll be asked for the password whenever an application needs access to your keychain and your keychain is locked.
Open Keychain Access and select the keychain in the drawer (click Show Keychains if the drawer is closed).
Choose Edit > "Change Password for Keychain 'login'." (The name of the keychain in the menu matches the name of the selected keychain. If you selected the keychain that unlocks when you log in, the name you see is "login.")
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Type a new password, then type it again to verify.
Click OK.
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There are several possible causes for this issue. Please take each of the following steps that you haven't already tried, testing after each one, until it's resolved. Back up all data before making any changes.
Step 1
Follow the directions in this support article.
Step 2
Open the iCloud preference pane and uncheck the Keychain box. You'll be prompted to delete the local iCloud keychain. Confirm. Then re-check the box. Follow one of the procedures described in this support article to set up iCloud Keychain on an additional device.
Step 3
Open the Keychains folder as in Step 1. There should be a file in that folder with the name "login.keychain". If there is also a file iwith the name "login_renamed_1.keychain", then please do as follows:
Rename login.keychain to "login-old.keychain".
Rename login_renamed_1.keychain to "login.keychain".
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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Keychain Access in the icon grid.
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from the menu bar. Add back the file now named "login.keychain". If any of your needed keychain items are missing from it, also add back the file now named "login-old.keychain". I suggest you transfer any needed items from that keychain to the login keychain, then delete it. The transfers are made by drag-and-drop in Keychain Access. You'll need to enter your password for each item transferred.
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