Old computer account into new computer,

I have used migration assistant to move my daughter's account from a shared family mac to a new ibook. I was the administrator on the family mac but she had admin rights as well. On the new ibook she is the only account.
Now I find that most of the system preferences on the ibook are greyed out and she cannot make changes. The accounts icon is greyed out so i cannot make an extra admin account either.
Some applications are saying she does not have user rights and to contact the person who is the administrator of her computer, but it was supposed to be her!
Is there an easy way to rectify this? I really do not want to have to reinstall the system software .

thanks Neil and Gulliver.
I used the system dvd as it seemed the simpler option. I reset my daughter's password and also the root as it seemed like a good idea.
On restart I got another user named "others"
Opening my daughters account showed that she had all access back.
The issues I am left with now is that the root is enabled. When i disabled we lost the option to change system preferences in my daughters account.
I can go back to aneabling the root but it does not seem safe and the extra log in is worrysome (it does not show as an account so i guess that is the root?
Neil I have looked at netinfor manager and originally the information for admin comes up in a pane at the bottom ie users- root daughters name and lots of other stuff but it is all greyed out. If root is enabled this is all black.
Thanks for your help so far-can you get me a little further. I still think this is an issue with migration assistant bringing in accounts that were not admin users which is messing things up.

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