Went from 10.4 to 10.5 and my main account became a group somehow

I updated from 10.4.11 to 10.5. Upon restart, I was only offered my alternate account, not my usual, main account, to log in. I went ahead and logged in as the alternate account and went to the Accounts preference pane. When I clicked the lock, I was prompted to enter an administrator ID and password. I did only to be rejected. I tried using my short user ID name. No luck. So I got on the support page and found a way to change my root password. I did and was able to log on as System Administrator. I then updated to 10.5.5 That didn't help. Using the Accounts preference pane, I found that my old main ID was listed as a "group" not an "account." So I went back to the support forums where I found several suggestions (I tried Article: TS1543) that involved entering text commands as a "single user." I tried those to no avail. I found the discussions about this issue and followed them with no luck. I tried the terminal command; dscl . read /groups/admin and got the following:
Edit-Desk:~ root# dscl . read /groups/admin
dsAttrTypeNative:Groupmembership: root
AppleMetaNodeLocation: /Local/Default
GeneratedUID: DCFE80EB-7CF5-499B-8E9A-ABF8DB0FAF83
GroupMembership: TF
PrimaryGroupID: 80
RecordName: admin
RecordType: dsRecTypeNative:groups
I am not sure, but doesn't that show my old main account (TF) as the administrator? Yet, I can't log in as that account and it isn't listed as an account on my preferences pane.
I am at a loss.

the directory services record for your main account got corrupted. that seems to be a reasonably common problem. log in as root and run the following terminal command
rm /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/short-user-name.plist
Instead of short-user-name put in the above the short name of the migrated user. It's the same as the name of that user's home directory in /Users folder. Please make sure you copy the command EXACTLY as given. it's very important. we don't want to delete the wrong thing here.
Restart and try creating the account with the shortname of the main user. it will say that a home directory by that name already exists and ask if you want to use it. say "yes". that should restore your main user.

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