Master Password up in smoke?

After reading a recent MacWorld article on making your Mac secure, I felt it might be a good idea to add a master password to the Keychain, and so followed instructions to do this, saved it, checked it, all seemed fine.
Last night I logged off the machine before putting it to sleep. Today I logged back in, and it immediately asked for the master password. I typed in the password, and it was rejected. I wrote it down, so I looked at it again just to be sure, typed it again, and it was rejected. After the 3rd time, I was tossed out for too many attempts. I've now tried it about 50 times with variations that I know really weren't what I typed. No soap.
How does one eliminate this bloody password that seemed like such a good idea?

Thanks, baltwo. I did dig around in the discussions, but more often than not the phrase "master password" turned up discussions of the File Vault and not the Keychain. In any case, my situation has resolved itself, thanks to another article in MacLife from a few months back, which reminded me (doh!) that there's this thing called Keychain First-Aid in the KeyChain menu...application of which fixed my keychain password problem. So it seems Apple planned for days like this.
I've another question--still keychain oriented: on my laptop, I find that email account passwords are not being stored in the keychain, even though I've repeatedly checked the "Remember this Password in my Keychain" box, with the result that I have to keep entering the password to receive or send mail for each account.
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