Leopard Does Not Recognise My Password - Help!!

I am not a computer-techy so I need some simple help.
Yesterday I upgraded from 10.4.9 to Leopard 10.5. My iMac no longer recognises my Administrator's password which means that I am barred from properly using my computer.
How do I fix this? I have seen responses on other similar topics but they are so technical they go over my head.
I have never, in 7 years of using Macs, had such a problem before.

Hi Julian,
+If I go to Macintosh HD then Places there is a house logo with 8 lower case letters against it which are the first 8 letters of my user name. Is that my short name?+ Yes as far as I know
+I am confused by the username bit. I realise that I replace that with my short name (whatever it might be) but what goes either side of it?+ Nothing
+Under note 5 it looks like: Users/shortname AuthenticationAuthority. (no space after /, space after shortname).+ Correct
+Under note 8 it looks like: passwd shortname. (space after passwd).+ Correct
As an alternative do you have another account on the machine you can access as there is a keychain fix now available on the apple web site which if you can install via another account might work. http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/loginkeychainupdate10.html
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