(Yosemite) Admin account woes after upgrading this weekend.

Hi,
I seem to have got myself in a little bother on my Mid-2007 iMac Core 2 Extreme after upgrading to Yosemite this weekend.
Since about Tiger I've had two accounts on this Mac, an admin and a daily use account. My wife and I share the daily use (1), with the admin account (4) only logged in to when sudo won't do.
It seemed clear to me with iOS8 and Yosemite that it was going to be better to align AppleIDs with user accounts so I created a new account for my daughter with her AppleID (2) and a new one for me with my other AppleID (3) (an old MobileMe account) however perhaps in error I used the alias address from the MobileMe account. I couldn't log in with it at all and can't work out how to change which AppleID email address is used with that OS X account. Then I noticed that my original Admin account (4) was a Standard User and now I'm in a position where the only Admin account on this machine has never been logged-in to and won't work - presumably because I used an alias rather than the primary address.
I've gone through Recovery Disk > Terminal > reset password > but that doesn't seem to work - perhaps because it's an AppleID OS X user rather than a local user(?)
Does anyone have any ideas how I should go about recovering from this?
Failing all, should I hit restore in Time Machine; it hasn't taken a backup since before the upgrade (I've disconnected the TimeCapsule to make sure) - anyway most of our recently changed files from the last two weeks will be safely on Dropbox/Photo stream.
Many thanks
mrtotes

Solution
After several further hours pondering/Googling:
1. Boot into Single User Mode
2. Type: mount - uw (sets write access on drive)
3. Type: rm /var/db/ .AppleSetupDone (removes the file that tells the iMac that setup is done
4. Exit
Upon rebooting the Setup app started so I was able to create a temporary Admin user and correct
my errors.
Regards,
mrtotes
P.S. Now looking at Firmware Password given how easy that was once I knew now.

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