New computer won't let me log in

I bought a MacBook Pro from a friend. After I transferred all the files over from my old MacBook Pro the new computer won't let me log in. It says my password is incorrect. What should I do?

I have the disks. She gave them to me when I bought the computer.
Here's what I'm wondering...
Since her computer was set to factory settings... and I immediately transferred my MacBook Pro over to her MacBook Pro without first doing all the updates on hers to get it up to the same level of Mac os 10.8 - would that be what's causing the problem or would all those updates have transferred over in the transfer?
Right now there are 4 installs running on the computer (the one we bought). I figure I'll let them run and see if the applications are back afterwards. If they aren't then perhaps I need to reset to factory settings again, go in and do the updates and THEN transfer over my old computer.
What do you think?

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