Resetting your Keychain Login password

I am having troubles with my keychains. The one titled 'login' comes up everytime I login to something, but I do not have the password for this. I have tried the help function to see if there is a way of resetting the password, but most of the avenues I've tried actually say that my password should be the same as my administrator password that I put in on start up. But it's not.
Any help would be appreciated because I am tired of just pressing cancel all the time and it's not saving settings on some things because I can't input the password.

Assuming that you are using a recent build of OS X, go to /Applications/Utilities and launch the app called Keychain Access. Go to the Window pulldown menu and select "Keychain First Aid". Enter your password, set the radio button to "Repair", and click "Start".

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