Panic... Time Machine deleted everything, restored nothing!

My Imac internal HDD was severely damaged, so I rebuilt it using the last SuperDuper clone I had. Unfortunately, it was rather old, but my Time Machine is current. I started a restore on the contents of my user account, and it informed me I didn't have space for both the current and restore contents. I selected 'replace'. The first thing it did was delete the desktop icons, then told me I didn't have sufficient privalages to restore it. Another strange thing is it selected 350GB worth of files that needed replacing. No way that much has changed since my last SuperDuper clone. I'm assuming its not going to attempt to replace files that haven't changed.
Anyway, my first problem is that I have insufficient privileges. I only have the one user account. Perhaps it is looking for 'admin', but as far as I know I never set a password for 'admin'. Is there a default? Bottom line, I'm in deep trouble. Any advice would be appreciated.

Scott's answer is a bingo! As for your other question...
I don't see why your Keychain should have anything to do with your privileges, since all it is is a utility to manage your passwords. As long as you remember the password that your administrative account has, Keychain doesn't make a difference.
If you go to Applications:Utilities and open up the Disk Utility, you should be able to select your Mac OS X boot drive and Verify / Repair Disk Permissions, which may help out with Time Machine. It sounds like a lot of your files have gotten screwed up and if Time Machine isn't getting the right access it needs to one of its important files, that may be why it can't restore your back up. Give Repair Disk Permissions a try, and if you still can't get it to work, I'd go with a clean install and a restore from Time Machine.
The reason why Time Machine might be trying to fix 320 GB of files is that your machine may have made teensy weensy changes to your files, as Mac OS X's Unix base is prone to do to keep your machine running well. Since Time Machine is looking for your files exactly the way it backed them up, you confused it by restoring with SuperDuper, which made the files look like they did before your Mac system changed the files and Time Machine registered those changes, so Time Machine wants to replace the files with the "newer versions", or it may be so confused as to want to simply ADD the new files and keep the existing ones too. Backing up with two backup systems is fine, but trying to restore from both can definitely complicate things!

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  • Time Machine Bug after Restore

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