What is the system keychain password?

Every single time I logon to my PB12, an alert pops up asking me for the system keychain password. I have tried the only password on this system but it tells me that is invalid.
I click cancel and everything works fine. It is 'Airport' that is causing it to ask, becuase until I click cancel airport remains inactive.
Why is it asking for the password?
Why won't it accept the only password I have on this system?
Why does it ask, when clicking cancel makes it work fine anyway?
What a pain in the (bottom) this is.

I have a similar problem myself. I can unlock the "System.keychain" keychain, but if I want to move items around, it asks me for the password again.
When I press the unlock button, it asks for the password for my full user name. And that one works, the keychain unlocks. But an unlocked keychain doesn't really let you do much administration on it. You must enter its password for any administration tasks. And that's when I get stuck: the system doesn't accept any password I know of, not even the empty password.
But I can delete items. So I can delete the item, then recreate it in the other keychain.
It seems like the system keychain is like a group, that can contain references to keys so that the whole system can use that key. But is it really like this, or is a copy of the key created, when a key automatically gets into the sytem keychain (like the airport keys)?
PowerBook 12" Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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2. Keychain First Aid - It will think that nothing is wrong with System.keychain, so as long as it is there.
3. Repair Permissions - Everyone believes that repairing permissions is the cure-all method for any problem with Mac OS X. It won't work because it already has the correct permissions (root:admin 755).
4. Deleting System.keychain itself - You won't ever get it back, and any base station added to your list of trusted networks will not have its password saved. Sure, it may save for YOUR login.keychain, but what if you have multiple users?
5. Replacing System.keychain with another from a known good system - This doesn't work either, and I'll explain why a little later.
6. Deleting /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist - That has nothing to do with the problem.
7. Duplicating your login.keychain and renaming it as System.keychain - Sure, you'll be able to unlock it with your admin password, but that doesn't solve the problem.
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Bars) - knew how to fix this issue. Google or search the discussion boards all you want; you'll be wasting your time as no one really seems to know what the problem is and have employed one of those seven methods.
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WARNING: This assumes that you are competent with the command line AND you have a working copy of OS X somewhere else nearby, preferably on an external disk partition. I'm not going to explain the basics of using the Terminal or how to access both of your systems at the same time. If you are afraid of screwing up, simply reinstall Mac OS X and say a few prayers that it will fix itself (assuming that another Software Update won't mess it up again).
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1. AS THE ROOT USER, you will need to copy over /var/db/SystemKey from a known good system to your problematic system. Make sure that you preserve the permissions (0400). It is advisable that you are NOT booted from your problematic system.
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