User listing unavailable on login window

Hey!
Ever since I upgraded to Leopard (10.5.1) my login window has changed from user listing to requiring a username and a password. If I set it to "List of users" the login window still asks for a username, and weirdly the "Show the restart, sleep and shutdown buttons" will cease functioning as well, i.e. no matter if I check it or not no buttons show up.
I have tried deleting all the com.apple.loginwindow.plist files in both my home and the root library to no avail.
Is this a Leopard-specific bug or maybe a result of upgrading directly from Tiger? Any ideas as to what i could do, please?

I created a new admin user account: when I logged out now only the new admin account was selectable, my old one was accessible only when clicking "Other..." and typing in the account name. So it did kind of solve the problem, but not how I wanted it.
Looks like as is my old account is like the Administrator/root account, that does not appear on the user listing. I read somewhere that some of the plist files control which users are added to the login screen, maybe I can meddle with that?
I cannot reinstall 10.5.1, my Install DVD came with it built-in.

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