KEYCHAIN #%*@$

I have a re-occurring problem (happened once before) which I was able to fix in the past by re-installing the system software. I just got the new iMac a month ago for our family. I am the adminstrator and three of my kids have other user accounts (total of 4 log-in accounts). For some reason I am asked to enter my keychain password to log into the computer, when I stop the screensaver. This does not happen all the time, just occasionally. When I enter the exact password I have always used, it tells me the password is invalid. After several tries it tells me to try again later. What would cause my password to re-set without me doing it? How do I solve this? Can I disable Keychain?
Thanks for your help.
Greg

I have had the same problems with the added fun of having Internet Explorer refuse to search the internet or go to any site from the Google search on my home page. I constantly have to put google into the address bar to get thru IE and on to any site. So when I tried to use Safari I got the Keychain blues.
Actually in response to previous un answered questions . Why is it No one knows how to DELETE ALL KEYCHAINS?
Is ther a way to get beyond the stupid request for the main Keychain password, Which should be my Logon password but which is most definitely not. And as stated in other peoples chats, the Keychain firsrt aid repair won't even go anywhere without the very password we are trying to fix./ How smart is that? When you have a problem with passwords in any system and even with the Install CD you are unable to reset the system passwords, THEN there is something wrong.
I have not gotten to the point of using the Install CD yet as my brother outlined a most intensive procedure to backup or transfer all data I wish to keep onto my external hard drive befor I can work on reformating hard drive to clear up the problems ( multiple )
I also now find that even though i got a new browser(Firefox) , and it worked like a champ for all of two and a half days; something in my computer decided that that was enough. I now get the same lame action as I did with the soon to be abandonded by Microsoft, IE. In other words when my home page comes up and i see a area that says google and a blank area for you to type in search word and you do so and hit enter the browser should send the pertinent data along and you get a google search results screen. But for me On IE browser, two days after I updated IE ( around september) Google search would start to search, the blue bar would move to about one half finished and the time display would roll along with the E world symbol; and that would be it. It will not go beyond that. It will not get through with it's request for data. It just sits there.
So I gave up and while able to use the address bar to get to google ( that's always fun ) search and out to the internet, it was always frustrating. Add to that Microsofts statement that after January or february 2006 they will not support in any way Internet Explorer.
As Ive said before, I diddled with trying to get Keychains off of safari's back to no avail.
So I move on to a brand new , never been in my computer before browser Firefox. Yeah! It works just like Internet Explorer used to a long time ago .( In other words as it was meant to work). For about two and a half days. and then everything locks up. I can use my cursor to move around but nothing responds.Not even Option-apple-Esc (force quit) from the keyboard.
At that point I had to resort to powering down my iMac. thru the powerup/down button. I was able to get back online with Firefox and back to the general area I was in before but that was the last time Firefox worked like it did.
I started to get cannot connect to ..... which ever area I was trying to get to . Even my earthlink.net homepage.
The same error warning screens I would now get if I tried to use IE to get to my homepage. Even the Address bar was messed up.
I just spent about forty five minutes with Earthlink help over the phone Just to get Firefox to get to my homepage.
But the browsers inability to connect to another Internet site through the Google search bar does not constitute a problem with Earthlink. The lady helping was able to get Firefox back to opening the homepage again and going to Webmail; but that's as far as Ive gotten . It just seems funny that the same problem I had with Internet Explorer has now settled upon Shiny New Firefox. I guess thats more than enough for now. If any one has any solutions to these problems; or in fact a way to rip Keychains out by it's roots , I would really appreciate the information. Thank you.

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so a recap/summary:
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or another other work around that will make Mail to prompt me to enter passwords when I fire up the application (not constantly, but just when I restarting the application, OR after the computer wakes up)
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thank you very much!
sakura

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A

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thanks.
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After the upgrade, I had a login keychain (the default) and my original username keychain. Both are in the chain of keychains, but since it has a choice, Mail keeps asking you to confirm.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.5">
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<filename>Eye-Fi Center</filename>
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"This installation of this application is damaged. Try re-installing or contacting the publisher for assistance."
I don't mean to hijack this 'Adobe.APS' thread with a separate issue - if you feel that this second issue would be better served in a separate thread, please let me know and I'll repost.
Thanks again for your help - much appreciated.
Sean

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Everytime I go to a new web page in Safari I box pops up on the screen with the message " Safari wants to use the login keychain. Please enter the keychain password." I click on the "cancel" button and the message disappears and I can get to the web page ok. It's just that having this message box pop up all the bloody time is driving me crazy. Is there anybody out there who knows how I can get rid of it entirely and restore my sanity please?
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