If you're not comfortable doing the off-the-disk root and admin change of password, then you can try logging in as Root from the Mac as it's operating now: Root user log-in procedures. Since you appear not to have your admin password, you may not find the link useful, but give it a look: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106290

speaking with a guy called Tom, who is now trying to help me with my Administration account that is set to Standard when apparently it shouldn't be. We can't install any software or make any changes to my computer because we can't log in! He says this is something he has never come across before and so he will phone the technical support

@Beonic Man I'm mystified: why did you buy a Mac? I won't even begin to try to counter your post, Alex has done a fair job of it, but I do trust you'll have some fine moments when you begin discovering what Macs can do. And if you want, you can open the OS without the GUI skin, putting you right into UNIX command territory on full-screen

Alex, I'm thoroughly impressed by your well reasoned and factual response to Beonic Man's rant. First, let me try and put to rest a canard: that Apple stole the GUI from Xerox PARC. I had dinner with Arnold Wasserman a short while ago, and discussed this with him. He was at PARC at the time and as VP of Human Centered Design he was charged with

Is this an Apple wireless keyboard? If so, it should have the same layout as an attached one. The Apple orcommand key is the one with the "tourist site" squiggle on it, next to the space bar. You should be able to type hyperfast on it (if you can type hyperfast!) :-) You can either drag your library, or import the files through the File Menu

Puncher: So these folk have XP, Vista and Linux all running under OSX at the same time - please! I only ever pipe up every now and then to remind folk that the odd claim or two may be ever so slightly exaggerated. Sorry Actually, developers have embraced the Mac OS and MacBooks (not the Pro version, but the white and black MacBooks) as ideal for developing

Let's not mix pants and skirts, Alex. Don't know if you have an AES account, but you can buy this anyway: http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=9182 And this recaps a bit of the theory: http://www.stereotimes.com/ambiophonicsch8.shtml Do remember that when you're at the location of a live performance, the sound sources are NOT bunched

I doubt the BV7 (not MKIII) has the proper scaling algorithms, and I don't know whether the Beosys3 in the MKIII has what was demonstrated to me with a Beosystem 3 running two BeoLab 5s and 1 BeoLab 7-4. The center channel should not overpower the L/R, but is there to fix the soundstage better. I'll see if I can come up with some links, it's

Puncher: OK, I'll stop sniping We all know how pretty the Mac range is and how well the operating system works. My (tongue in cheek) point was while everyone loves to knock Microsoft (esp here in Beoworld) for all its various faults (and I'm not advocating windows by any means) they are willing to completely overlook issues with their Apple

Puncher, you're free to flame Apple's OS as much as you want. I do think that Jobs made a brilliant decision when he locked hardware and software. Microsoft never got around to building hardware beyond the X-box; IBM sold its setup to China; Dell is struggling; Compaq is getting out; HP is wondering what happened. We may seem to be griping,