Reclone of Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4.10) on separate HD rejects User log  in

When installing Leopard on a brand new Internal 500 GB HD, I decided to keep my Tiger 10.4.10 operating system on a separate drive as a back up strategy.
Since I wanted to retire an older Tiger containing 60 GB HD (MAC OS X 10.4.10) which was in an enclosure that I used as my boot drive, I simply cloned my old Tiger system (Mac OC X 10.4.10) onto a pre-existing version of Tiger which was on an internal 250 GB HD and overwrote my existing second internal HD which had the most recent version of Tiger. I thought rewriting Tiger on it would be no issue as it was a clone of the external HD which already had the same version of Tiger.
Now when I try to access that internal HD, I simply can not boot off of that HD despite my selection of that drive as the boot drive when booting up with the Option Key depressed.
Upon rebooting, the log in screed is displayed with my short user name grayed out. When I attempt to enter my user name and my password, the computer just rejects it --and any other password and name combination this is used including other users.
I can access the 250 HD from my existing 60 Gig External HD containing Tiger, but I can absolutely can not start up from the internal 250 GB Tiger containing HD no matter what I try.
I have tried inserting the Tiger CD and resetting my Password from that method of start up, but even that option does not work.
Any other suggestions out there from you Tiger experts.
bobg

Hi Robert
You've probably corrupted the netinfo database, which holds information on the users in the system. This is a common result of cloning without first erasing the destination drive.
You can try this, which resets netinfo and runs the Setup Assistant on successful boot. Reboot into single-user mode (hold down cmd-S at boot), and type each of the following commands.
fsck -y (if the command reports and fixes errors, repeat it until it doesn't)
mount -uw /
cd /var/db/
rm .AppleSetupDone
cd netinfo
mv local.nidb local.nidb.bak
exit
Now, when the Setup Assistant runs, enter your short name exactly as it was before, and the system will use your existing home folder to recreate the user. Log out and log in to make sure that netinfo is set up correctly, and make sure you have access to your home folder subfolders (Documents, etc).
You can recreate any other users through System Preferences - Accounts: again, use the same short name. If you can, recreate them in the same order you did originally.
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