Keychain problems since Leopard?

I never saw the term 'keychain' or knew of its existence until upgrading to Leopard. Since the upgrade, various downloads or upgrades of other softwares have found issues with the 'keychain'. Issues such as: keychain can't be found, cannot store to keychain, do you want to restore to defaults, and others.
I recently upgraded to MS Office 2008 for Student & Home, and the 'keychain' reference came into play when I tried to register the product.
I really don't understand the term 'keychain', and since upgrading to Leopard I have had more references to the 'keychain' term. Where is the 'keychain' used, what is it exactly, and how can I repair it or at least make it work properly?

Hi 1parkpointer;
Keychain remembers passwords for you.
I would suggest that you repair permissions first. If that doesn't correct the problem with Keychain, I would suggest that you repair opening Keychain Access from Utilities. Then open Keychain First Aid under the Keychain Access menu. This will open a pane where you have to give admin user name and password then click Repair.
Allan

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b FUD
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b irresponsible
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i simultaneously,
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