Mac Help changes to Spanish after initial screen

Hi:
I've just got my iMac back from a Spanish Apple Repair Centre and everything was reset in Spanish when they installed a new hard disc. I thought I'd switched everything back to English but I now have 2 problems:
They have set up an Administrator password but neglected to tell me what it is!
Mac Help initially appears in English but when I click any section or type anything in, the results appear in Spanish.
Can anyone help particularly with the second problem? Many thanks

I thought I'd switched everything back to English
We could all keep suggesting things to do and then you could keep telling us that you already did that, so why not tell us everything you did to get things back to your brand of English and then we can suggest what you may have left out.
Dah•veed

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