Login keychain acting weird!

I just bought at 17" powerbook and I put all of my old keychain passwords from my G3 desktop into my new login keychain. Now, when I try to access the login keychain, nothing comes up. Even the locked/unlocked icon is missing, and I can't access any of my passwords at all. I also cannot delete this keychain or lock/unlock it. It is essentially useless.
I did create another keychain called "login", and it is effectively saving new passwords, but now there are two login keychains and I don't know what to do about the old one.
T

resetting an account password does not change the keychain password. you need to know the old keychain password to open the keychain or change its password. there is NO way around that. if you don't know or can't remember the old keychain password you can't access old keychain entries. you then need to delete the old keychain and make a new empty one with the new user password as the keychain password. to do that delete (or move somewhere) the file home directory/library/keychains/login.keychain and log out/in. a new blank keychain will be generated and you can start saving passwords into it.

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