Migration assistant-old password doesn't work

My old Mac Mini (running Leopard) died and I just got a new one. I had an extern disk that was used as the boot drive for the old mini, so I attached it to the new one and turned on the new mini. I was lead through the screens and got to the one regarding migrating user folders, systems files, etc from an attached volume to the new mini; it displayed the correct volume and listed all the file/folder choices including the users (me and my wife). Everything seems to have gone well, except when it finished migrating and presented the login screen, I choose my former admin account (me) but kept getting an error - the the password was wrong. After several tries, it presented a password hint, which is correct.
I then tried logging into my wife's account (she a regular user) and did get in. Naturally, I couldn't change any user info for my account, like issuing a new password.
So now what? I even tried logging in as root using the old root password, no go - I suspect that needs to be activated, but can't do that with my wife's account. Any ideas??
Thanks.
Message was edited by: pvonk

Oh.... I just went to preferences>accounts again (using my wife's account) and for login options, the screen correctly shows the former settings; auto login with my account, etc. But when I reboot, it doesn't auto login, just presents the list of users. So I think the bottom line is that the password got corrupted during migration.
On my MacBook Pro, I had a way to connect to the mini via finder, and the login was automatic since the password was in the keychain. But again, trying to log in remotely gets me nowhere.

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