Lost Auto-Fill password

I recently logged in to a website and it told me my password expired. It then took me to another screen where I entered a new password and told Safari to remember it.
Unbeknownst to me, what this last screen really wanted was my pre-existing password, not the new one I wanted to select. But now the original password is no longer visible in Keychain Access (that is, I changed it in Safari but not on the website). Is there any way that I can revert this change? For example, does Keychain Access keep a backup of earlier stored passwords?

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How do you transfer all of your saved auto-fill passwords from Safari into Chrome?
It won't let me do it in Preferences/Personal Stuff/Browsing Data
The box "saved passwords" is grayed out and it won't let me select it!
Thanks in advance for any help!
HARDWARE/SOFTWARE I AM RUNNING:
2.66 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
OS 10.6.7

The box "saved passwords" is grayed out and it won't let me select it!
Are you referring to: Manage Saved Passwords ??
Your passwords are stored in Keychain Access /Applications/Utilities
Select Options (Preferences on Mac and Linux; Settings on Chrome OS).
Click the Personal Stuff tab.
Adjust your password settings in the "Passwords" section:
Select "Offer to save passwords" if you want Google Chrome to prompt you to save your password every time you sign in to a new website.
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However, this time it crashed and it appears to have completely wiped out all of my auto-fill/password data that I had saved. As this is a personal computer and nobody else uses it, I had a lot of passwords saved into it (most of them for low security risk sites). As everybody knows, a user often has hundreds of usernames/paswords for a huge number of websites. I can't remember them!
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Mac OS X Version 10.6.8

Passwords are stored in Keychain Access located in Applications > Utlities
Launch Keychain Access then select Passwords on the left.
Type in the name of a website you've visited that autofilled the password.
Then double click the website name the select the Attributes tab then click: Show password
You may be prompted for your admin password to proceed.
If you want a website to re remember the password, right or control click the website name in Keychain Access the click Delete.
The next time you login to that site and enter your password you should be prompted to save that data to a new keychain.
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Script to auto-fill password?

Any idea if there's a script I could use to auto-fill password in the ultra-annoying username/password prompt?
I asked Apple if I could circumvent this and they said no.

From the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Passwords
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Auto fill passwords is no go

I know this has been discussed a billion times but I can't get in any answers by reading the old posts. Since I'm brand new to Mac this "key chain" deal is just about the most dumbest thing I have ever seen (can you tell I'm ******) lol
I have been a PC user for years. I could type one password in Norton Identy Safe and the computer automatically logged in to pay my bills, forums, and online banking, everything....not with a Mac!!???
I use strong passwords in which they are difficult to type much less remember.
I have brand new MBP 13" with Lion 10.7.4 and have tried keychains, auto fill is "on", etc....
I manually build keychains and they will not work.
It was doing good at first by asking would I like to remember passwords, username, but it quit. I mean it actually autofilled there for a short period of time but "poof" its gone now. Everything is still there in keychains...just not working.
Help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks

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Back up all data.
Launch the Keychain Access application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Keychain Access in the icon grid.
Select the login keychain from the list on the left side of the Keychain Access window. If your default keychain has a different name, select that.
If the lock icon in the top left corner of the window shows that the keychain is locked, click to unlock it. You'll be prompted for the keychain password, which is the same as your login password, unless you've changed it.
Right-click or control-click the login entry in the list. From the menu that pops up, select Change Settings for Keychain "login". In the sheet that opens, uncheck both boxes, if not already unchecked.
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Keychain Access ▹ Preferences ▹ First Aid
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Select
Keychain Access ▹ Keychain First Aid
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Just got a new MacBook Pro 2ghz on Tuesday. Used the migration assistant and all appeared well with one exception: Safari has lost my saved usernames and passwords. I had about 150 from my old machine (which are still there), but they did not migrate to the new laptop. The list in Safari only shows the usernames, so I cannot use it to re-enter the information.
The real problem is that I cannot figure out what settings/preferences to copy over to remedy the problem. I have tried moving the forms pref (in the Safari folder in the prefs folder in the user folder), no dice. My keychain looks like it was transferred fine, but there are several passwords not saved there (?) or so it seems.
Can anyone shed any light on this? I have access info to hundreds of sites that I need to get. By the way, bookmarks, icons, etc, all transferred fine.
Thanks,
xrob
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Reset: Press the Home and On/Off buttons at the same time and hold them until the Apple logo appears (about 10-15 seconds). No data will be lost.
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