Can't login to my account!

[jcafaro10]

I'm new to macs. I forgot my root password which I needed to uninstall a program so I put in my OSX cd and went to the reset password tool. I reset the password for my user account as well as the root account. I gave them the same password and hit save. Then I rebooted and it asked me to login with my user account. The administrator account isn't there. I tried the new password (and I definitely typed it correctly) but it doesn't work. Now I can't login. What's going on?

 

[guydude193]

Do you have a guest account? You can just access your accounts pane in the Guest Account and use the password to create the admin account.

 

[POSIXFTW]

Click Restart at the login window
While the computer is restarting, hold down "Command-S" until you see text scrolling through the window. This boots the computer into single user mode.
At the Localhost% prompt type:
/sbin/mount -uw /
/sbin/SystemStarter
You will then see various services starting up.

When the Localhost% prompt reappears, type:
passwd root
It will then ask you to type the new root password twice, so do so.

After entering the new password, type:
reboot

 

[jcafaro10]

I don't know if I have a guest account. When I used the cd, all that showed up was Administrator or my name when I went to reset password. When I try and login all that's there is my name. I don't understand why my password wouldn't work. It sort of seems silly to have a password resetter that doesn't work.

I'll try the other suggestion