Safari requests keychain.login constantly!

I just bought a 17" Macbook Pro and am new to Tiger 10.4.7. I don't understand keychain. I have an administrator password to log on to my computer. If I go online, Safari keeps popping up a log-in box and asks for my "keychain.login." I type my administrator password, which is all I have, but it says it's incorrect! If I just cancel the pop-up, it goes away--I'm not restricted or anything. Does this happen to everyone who uses Safari? Am I supposed to have a separate password for keychain? If not,is there some way to make it stop asking for this? It is very annoying. Thanks for any help you can give me with this issue.
17 " Macbook Pro 1,2 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo, 2 GB ddr2 SDRAM

Thanks for all of the suggestions. I might have solved the issue for now. I created a standard user account to be separate from my admin account and discovered that whenever I use Safari as a standard user, it never asks for my keychain! It's wonderful. I will try your suggestions in my admin account though and see if any will work. Thanks again.
17 " Macbook Pro 1,2 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo, 2 GB ddr2 SDRAM

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