Lost access to my keychain

I've got a seriously irritating problem. For some reason today my keychain access seized up entirely. All the entries are there in my login keychain but none of the passwords are accessible. Clicking "Show password:" pops up an error message "Access to this item is restricted".
I've tried everything I can locate in discussion threads and nothing is helping:
- Keychain First Aid finds no problems
- I can reset the keychain password but still can't access the passwords hidden within
- I restored to a previous version of the keychain that was still working
- I created a new keychain, then synced it to my Mobile Me account (which has a functioning computer where this isn't screwed up). I unregistered everything, deleted the sync files on MobileMe, synced the good computer to it, then synced the screwed up account, choosing to replace the keychain. Everything copied over but nothing changed.
- I tried to follow a 10.5 thread, but the referenced files were not present in 10.6: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9160807#9160807
Has anyone seen something like this? Is there something else I can try?

Thanks. I tried both of these and had no luck.
Not much help from me other than to say that I have exactly the same problem and have also tried the suggested solutions to no avail.
Shivna

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