Lion Admin account issues

What looked like a very smooth change at the beginning is turning into a very tedious affair. Apart from having to deal with no support for PC-software, I am experiencing a problem with my admin account. It was transferred from Snow Leopard to Lion but is only partially recognized. Sometimes, when trying to make changes, I get the admin password prompt, on other occasions it won't allow me to install anything new. I tried to set up a new admin account, but to no avail.  I am still told that I am logged in in a standard account. Rebooting, logging out and in again, etc. does not help. Can anybody help with this, or do I need to revert to 10.6.8 until Apple has fixed this glitch? And how would I do that? Thanks for any suggestions.

the directory services entry for your admin group is corrupted and needs to be replaced. see this post by biovizier for a solution.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9141393#9141393

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