My Imac wont recognize my log in password

Hello?
I own an Imac with Leopard 10.5 (NOT Snow Leopard)...
Yesterday - I re-installed the 2 disks to try to clean up a bit the system...
(I've own the computer for 3 or 4 years, and I think it kinda needed it...)
It installed (took 2 hours) and all seemed well until - I went to log in...
I put in my pw (same pw since I bought the Imac) and it wont recognize it???
It wont recognize the master pw either...
What can I do - I live very far (200km) from an Apple store...
I will give all the points and stars to anyone who can help!!
I have a huge assignment to start this week...
Chilly

If you think it is "root" then the fllowing tells you how to enable/disable root user using your admin password:
Enabling and using the "root" user in Mac OS X
And you can also change the root password from terminal using:
sudo passwd root
Answer the prompt for your admin passoword (it won't be echoed) and then the other prompts.

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