Says I need to login with the Administrator account even though I am

Ok, I'm trying to install the printer driver for my new printer, its an HP Photosmart C3100. When I run the installer it prompts me to enter my password (The details tab says that it is specifically requesting system.privilege.admin), but when I do it says the following:
"The software to be installed requires Administrator or higher level access privileges."
The thing is that the account that I login as and the password I use are for the Administrator account.
I've tried everything I can think of to solve this. I've made new administrator accounts and it won't accept them, I've run disk utilities and another application to repair my computer's permissions, nothing seems to work.
Anyone have any idea how to solve this short of fully reinstalling OS X.

Open the netinfo manager (/Applications/Utilities/Netinfo Manager)
click on groups in the window that pops up and then admin.
Make sure that your admin account is a value under the users property.
If not, you may not be able to change it if you are having authentication problems...
in that case you might want to quit the application and open the terminal and type (without the quotes) "sudo open -a /Applications/Utilities/NetInfo\ Manager.app/"
That should prompt you for the admin password, hopefully it will work from the terminal. If not you might have to start from the install cd and reset the password from there.

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