Reset 'Administrator' when there is None?

How can I reset 'Administrator' when there is None?
Up to now I was only mildly disappointed at the process of rebuilding mom's aging iMac. Basically, she needs to throw it away, sparing any subsuquent user the hassles I've endured 24/7 for the past 8 days or so... So, now I have a great, and utterly simple question which every single advanced user should know how to resolve. "Jean" -the main and only named user, is not an Administrator, and evidently it wants some other password to enter the space that would enable us to go any further.
I can firewire the drive, doctor it from my REAL Macintosh, and I can blank it out for a third time and start over, but eventually the motherboard is going to catch fire, that's a certainty. This brings into question the entire validity of rerstoring "Permissions"alltogether.

This may help: 
Restore admin user status.
If your admin user loses admin status for whatever reason (and it has happened to a few people), and you do not have a second admin account, then try the following: 
Boot into single-user mode.  At the prompt enter:
mount -uw /
nicl -raw /var/db/netinfo/local.nidb -merge /groups/admin users your-username-here 
Press RETURN after each command.  To restart in OS X enter: 
reboot
I recommend you write down these commands in a monospaced font.  Be sure to carefully note where there are spaces in the command line.

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