No admin right in Lion after install

hello,
after installing Lion from AppleStore I don't have any right to admin my computer. the user is set to standard and not other user is available for admin. today, luckily, it is installed on an external drive and I have 10.6 on the iMac drive but it is a bit cumbersome and don't find any way to have access to my computer, nor any option during install to avoid this. any clue?
I read many post but didn't find any taking this issue.
thank you very much for your help.
François

hello,
no, and I don't know how to use root for 10.6 or later .... I did it several time up to 10.5.
I cleaned up the HD manually with terminal and with a lot of "rm", since I have some manual backup folders on it.
Actually, I want to test Lion before migrating, I don't want to migrate fully yet.
I haven't had time to re-install yet.
thank you for your ideas, we will see tonight if it works.
best regards,
François

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