Safari asking for keychain "login" in non-administrative account.

To protect my wife's newly acquired refurbished MacBook from her complete lack of knowledge about Macs or computers in general, I set myself up as the Administrator on her MacBook and protected this account with a password. I then set her up as a simple user without a password, but to whose account the MacBook goes automatically after a reboot (to make things simple for her).
Now each time my wife opens Safari on her account, it asks her for "your keychain password" (she has none established on her account). Instead, the password that is accepted by Safari is my administrative account (while she is opening Safari on her account that is not password protected). Interestingly, when I log in to my administrative account and open Safari, it does not ask for this password.
If she hits "cancel" on this password request, Safari appears to function without problems, however, she is annoyed by this frequent appearance of this window asking for the password and is asking me to make it stop (I have no clue how).
Any suggestions?
Thanks.

Hi resourcesforlif...,
I did as suggested and lost my keychain set-up. (nameX.keychain). It still seems to be in home/Library/Keychains but haven't figured how it get it back - it is no longer listed in Keaychain sidebar. When/if I do I will methodically go through my key chain and manually copy all data I need and then print it out and laboriously re-enter it into a new keychain file. ( I do have a back up of nameX.keychain incase what I found in my home library is corrupted); at some previous point I was able to make my nameX.keychain my default keychain. Will figure it out again, I am sure.
What a bore, though; the hours I have wasted on all this.
Since installing Leopard to my 4 month old MacBook I feel I am getting bloatware from Apple. Enough is enough. So far the following have occurred:
-Help crashes all the time from the Finder (all Help was gone but now I get it sporadically in Safari, Palm stuff, a few other apps but it is temperamental).
- Mt Keychain problems: Seemed scrambled and had to sign in whenever opening Safari;
- my Contacts/Addresses and Calendar to my Palm TX broke - can't isync them though all else in PalmDeskTop works; to be fair, this may have happened between Leopard instal and keychain fix-it the little update mentioned above.
-I don't know if I can blame this on Leopard but now my Word docs cannot be spell checked in anything other than American spelling and there is no way to change it to British spelling. I have to check everything in Texted. Go figure.
I suspect Leopard was released too early.
I've never had this problem with any Mac OS upgrade and I've done them all. I feel like I'm in a Windows Nightmare. Given what I have gone through, I would never have upgraded. Ya, ya! I should have backed up but I don't have the room and I really trusted Apple to get it right, again.
Cheers,
mhikl

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