"Sorry, you've entered an incorrect password..."

But no, I haven't...
Has anyone else seen this, and if so, what can I do to fix it? PowerBook 667, OS 10.4.11. When waking from sleep, I enter my password and usually that works just fine. But occasionally, I'm presented with a dialog telling me that I've entered an incorrect password, when I know full well that I typed my password correctly (because I'm careful, and make certain of each character when entering my password ever since this started happening).
Upon entering my password a second time, it works and things open up as they should. Last week I ran Cocktail to repair disk permissions and run the Daily, Weekly, and Monthly scripts. And for a few days afterward, my password was always accepted on the first attempt. But after a few days it started being rejected again.
And yes, I'm already well aware of the slight delay between the moment the password entry box first appears and the point where it will actually accept the first character entered... and so I always wait a few seconds before entering.
And no, it's not the caps lock key. It works on the second attempt without doing anything other than entering the (same!) password again.
Any ideas what could be causing this? And how do I get it to stop? I'm just worried that eventually it might stop taking my password on the second (or third?) attempt...

You could also try to reset the admin password used to setup the computer;
even if it means changing it again to the same one. For that much trouble,
just 'add a one' after the original, so it really would be different... or a two.
I often have more than one user account in my computer; and no second
real user, so both can be Admin level accounts if I like. It is actually better
to have one Admin account where the upgrades and apps are installed
and system maintenance is performed, where the main password is not
used all the time, and a lesser account for daily use. That way, you could
still get into the computer and deal with minor annoyances if one account
should act poorly. There are many support documents and online info
sources about how to manage user accounts, settings and so on. There
is also a security advantage to having more than one account and not
have the computer boot up automatically in the main Admin account.
However the world turns...
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