.mac system pref gives wrong password

I saw this question in the archives, but it was not answered. I hope someone can help me. I have acquired an iMac and am trying to sync and run Backup. Backup says it is in trial version because I am not a .mac member. Sync says my iDisk is not connected or mounted. However, the iDisk is mounted and I can see all of my data stored on it. I can also sign into .mac online and on my Powerbook. I can run backup on the PB, too. Now
When I access the .mac system prefs, the password automatically fills in with way too many characters. Since these characters are all dots, I do not know what it is putting in. When I go into the keychains or log into my .mac online, it accepts my correct password. I don't know what is going on and how to get the sys. prefs to let me put in the correct password. Now I just checked the prefs on the PB and it is doing the same thing, but it WILL allow me to use sync and Backup. Does anyone know how to get the iMac to recognize my .mac membership?

I have tried and tried, but I am not able to reset anything in iSync on the imac. iSync will not run, saying it cannot access my .mac account. I have 4 macs in my house, including a G3 that cannot even install Tiger (due to no DVD drive), and 3 of them can sync and can do all they should do. The imac is the only one with this problem. It will not recognize that I am a .mac member, thus, will not allow me to sync or set prefs.
If anyone has any more suggestions, I would appreciate hearing them and would like to try them. The only thing different about this imac is that it was formerly owned by someone who had a .mac account. His account is no longer active and I want to make the computer my own. I was able to change the passwords and could change everything except the short name of the home folder. I wonder if this has any connection with my .mac identification problem. My other 3 Macs all have different names, though, so I don't see how that could affect it.

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I did a quick check on System Preferences Help and this is what I found:What to do if .Mac syncing seems sluggish
Sometimes we need coffee as a pick-me-up; sometimes .Mac Sync may seem like it could use some too. If you've noticed that syncing your .Mac data is taking longer than it used to, reset your data to speed things up again.
Each time you make changes to your data and sync it to .Mac, it creates new entries. Over time, all these separate entries can start to slow down the sync process.
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Welcoome to Apple Discussions.
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