My Macbook is not recognizing my password, why? What can I do to fix?

My Macbook Pro is a late 2011 Model running OS X. I can't give more specific specs right now as I can't log on to it.
Background:
I have been running into the issue for the past several months of a dim green light on the Charger. The possible issues I am guessing and have read with this are:
a.) Need a new battery b.) Need a new Charger c.) Need to charge the logic board.
c.) was inspired by this thread Why dose my MacBook not turn on and the charger light is very faint and the post by "rajjulian" (7 posts in)
Inspired by c.) I took my Macbook apart for the first time last night and pulled out the battery. According the post in c.) I can somehow "charge the motherboard". It was not obvious to me that I could actually do this. So I put everything back together.
I turned the computer back on and used the internet for a few minutes. I tried to download a file and came across the error "Not enough Disk Space" (or something like this :-/). After checking I still have plenty of room on the computer looking at the diagnostics (less than half the total storage is being used).
Upon searching the internet again I came across an article, which I can't find again because its on the downed computers history. Anyways, I ran a Disk Repair in Disk Utilities. I then upgraded my Software. Restarted the computer. And attempted to login. Which it did not allow me to do. It did not recognize my user password.
Latest: I can't even get into the login screen this afternoon. Its on the grey Apple screen with the loading circle thingy.
Moral: Only try fixing your computer if you know what you are doing.
Any help or ideas for how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. I have a lot of important files I need to get off of this thing :-/
Thanks ahead, Kyle

Go to the printer manufacture website and download the drivers for your printer model for OS X v10.9 Mavericks.
Then open System Preferences > Printers & Scanners > Print
Select your printer on the left then click -  (minus)
Then click + (plus) to add the printer.

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