how do I boot my Mac Pro to recovery mode

Apple Article to reset the password for 10.6.8 and earlier, and 10.7 and later should help.

P.S. Go to Apple menu -> About This Mac to verify your operating system.

Mac Pros are not PowerMacs. There is a separate forum for them here:

Mac Pro

vgcondo wrote:

but I cant even get my Mac Pro to start up in recovery mode.

OS X: About OS X Recovery should be helpful.

vgcondo wrote:

I guess it could be just me and Kharma for making fun of Mac users for so many years past.

Welcome to the 'Dark Side' (of the Moon or Siths - take your pick). 😉

Recovery was only introduced in Lion so it does not exist for Snow Leopard where using 10.6 DVD would be first step or booting from another system.

Recovery mode is available to older Macs with Lion or later installed if they install this firmware (if their machine is listed on the firmware page):

Computers that can be upgraded to use OS X Internet Recovery

You both, in almost same words,

To which, a system won't have Recovery Mode available and isn't present.

"in Lion or later" and "requires Lion and is not available to Snow Leopard"