Not accepting the Admin Password

Hi everyone,
My computer just asked for my Admin password. I typed it in and it said it was incorrect. I tried typing in my Master password and it also said this was incorrect. How worried should I be?
I clicked on the "?" button and it told me how to reset the password, but why won't it work? I would imagine some type of malware got a hold of it, but I haven't installed anything, and haven't even typed in my Admin password since I transferred everything from my old MacBook to this MacBook Pro.
Can anybody help?
Thanks,
Torea

What you can do, is to reboot with the OSX Snow Leopard disk inside:
1) insert disk, wait for it to show.
2) restart
3) IMMEDIATELY when the screen goes off (after restart command), hold down the "option" key ("alt") and KEEP holding it down until the whiteish screen appears. After a while, you will be presented with (at least one) your normal startup disk...
3a) you may release the "option" key now...
3b) ...wait for the OSX disk to show up and select that.
4) "Use English as the install language..." press and confirm
(don't worry, you are not installing anything at that moment)
5) wait till the simplified finder bar appears and from the the
Utilities/reset password
tool, you can now reset your password.
5a) Whilst you are there, you could also create a "firmware password"
(that way, no-one can access the option you accessed after Serial 3 as above,
unless your selected firmware password is entered)
6) quit the reset password tool and reboot.
It should now work. If not, try to REPAIR DISK PERMISSIONS.
Finally, you may have lost access to "root" (see *apple article* )
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