On 7/23/11, kristen <kristen at atmyhome.org> wrote: => On Friday 22 July 2011 14:13:11 john wrote: >> I'm not sure if I get it... but I think you just need to boot from your >> install disk, or one of many install disks....then don't install just >> change the administrator password to your own.. Restart and then you >> should be able to install other updates etc. > > If you do it this way then you also need to delete the keychain for the user > that you reset the password for. Thus you must create a new keychain. However, all you have to do is launch Keychain Access and change the keychain password to match. No reason to delete the keychain and start from scratch.