Trouble logging in :(

Hi Everyone,

This is my first post on this forum... I am quite new to the Mac platform, so forgive me for not being very knowledgable... I used a powermac 18 years ago for a time, but my work has steered me the Linux and Windows route since... loving my new Mac though!

I set up a home server and managed to screw it up by selecting the option to propegate permissions to sub folders and files, so when I rebooted I got nothing but a spinning wheel. I used verbose mode to find the issue, then spent a couple hours trying to fix it. I discovered searching the forums that Lion has a recovery mode so used it to restore permissions, this worked so now I have a login prompt, but when I try to login using my admin account it gives the error that the account is not available due to an error.

In the Users folder I can see the admin account etc.. I don't know how to enable a login using the root account in single user mode, and I don't have a CD since the mini didn't ship with one, I also don't don't have the terminal in the recovery utilities to try reinitialise the password... not sure where to go from here??

Any help would we most welcome!!

Thanks,

@web guy