Mac Mini Quad i7: Can't Log-in After Setup

Today I bought a MacMini Lion Server (Quad i7) at the local Apple Store for $999. Got home, got to work on setting it up, connected to my network, created a host name and network name, password, etc. That's where things went very bad. I got the message that I had set up the server successfully, pressed continued, at which point it reboted and brought me to the login page, requesting name and password. The only problem is, it's not accepting my name and/or password, and all I get is the "no" shake. I don't know if I did a typo when naming the computer or password or what.....all I know is I am completely locked out of my new Mac Mini Server.
Given that it's not even a day old, what should I do? Yes, I feel like a moron if I made the error, but I've never had a Mac that didn't at least default by populating the "name" field and then requiring a password. I am 99% sure the password is correct, because you have to type that twice at setup.
Thank you for any help.

Either reboot holding down R and Boot from the Recovery partition and start over
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