NEED HELP FORGOT MASTER PASSWORD

I FORGOT MASTER PASSWORD BUT I HAVE THE STARTP DISC 10.4.6. .. I TRIED TO HIT THE APPLE C BUT ON RESTART BUT IT DIDNT RESPOND ,,, I ALSO HIT THE APPLE S ..BUT IM NOT FAST ENOUGH TO TYPE COMMANDS... CAN ANYONE HELP ME TO REBOOT USING MY DISC .. I CAN ONLY USE MY GUEST ACCOUNT AND NOT MY MASTER .. EVERYTHING IS BACKED UP .. BUT WHAT SHOULD I DO TO COMPLETELY RE-INSTALL ?

Insert the Mac OS X install disk. Then select Restart and hold down the "c" key. You don't have to be really fast, you have plenty of time. But keep the "c" key held down until you get the Apple screen and the "spinning gear" progress indicator. See this for complete instructions:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh655.html
Make sure you're using the disk that came with your Mac, or a later retail copy.
Regards.
BTW, a couple of "housekeeping" items:
1) It is generally considered inappropriate to type all in uppercase letters in Internet discussions, as text that is typed all in uppercase is by convention considered to be shouting. Uppercase is also more difficult to read, so please use all uppercase sparingly and only when you really mean to shout, which we hope you won’t need to do here .
2) This forum is for the minitower Mac Pro. If you have a MacBook Pro, the forums for that are here:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=190

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