Set Root password AND not have "other" on login screen?

I always set a root password on any _nix system, my friends who use Ubuntu thought I was crazy until I showed them that I can gain access to their account without any kind of password, do whatever I want, and then reset the password so they'll never know I was in, in less than five minutes. Now they believe me.

So I set the root password on my SL box, and now upon boot I have to choose between logging in to my account, and logging in to "Other". I don't have this problem until I set the root password, upon boot I could simply type my password and move on if the root is still not secured. This problem was also there in Leopard.

Is there a way to tell SL to automatically assume I want to log in to the only true user account on the machine? If not, it's not much effort to select my account, but it's not a matter of it being too much effort, it's a matter of there not needing to be any effort.