My computer has NO Admin...only "Standard" account ..Help !!!!!

Hi.
Everything was fine...today I turn my computer on. I decide to download 10.5.1. The computer asks me for my "Admin" password. I type it in . And it is rejected.
Now I go to "system prefs" and checkout the "accounts" pane.
Here is what is weird........There is 1 user. Me. However I'm no longer a "Admin" account, I'm only a "Standard" account.....
HUH???
So in other words there is NO admin account anymore....So first of what happened to my admin priveleges? And if they got destroyed, how the heck should I know what the password is for an Admin that doesn't exist?
HELP
thanx,
SvK
Message was edited by: S v K
Message was edited by: S v K

One thing to try would be Apple's recommended procedure for promoting a "standard" account to "admin" when all "admin" users have been lost while upgrading to 10.5, which can be found in this link:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306876
If the problem is just that your account has lost "admin" privileges, there is no reason why it shouldn't work even if the loss of status isn't associated with upgrading.

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