-=PCTechTalk=- Forgot my administer password....HELP! If that's possible :o(

Is there anyway to retrive your own administer password to logon to Windows 
 Vista? I can only go on the "No password" guest window. I can't remember 
my  passwords, although I swear I have them right. 
 
I had backed up Gateways Recovery disc's (4 in all) as well as  Norton's 
backup 2 disc's and tried to restore both of them (one at a time, of  course), 
but it didn't work. In fact, it didn't do anything at all. Do you think  
I'm ready to be crowned a ceritfied PC Technian wizard or just a plain 
certified  nut case? LOL 
 
I did have a Trojan which was fixed by Norton 360, but on the Guest logon  
desktop I'm limited to what I can do. Do I have to reinstall the OS again 
and  lose all my data and programs? I even tried coping them to files on a CD, 
 but WIN Vista is way different from Win 98. It was easier copying files 
then.  Vista won't let me select my files to send to the CD drive one at a 
time  until I have reached the limited capacity of the disc. Then I would  burn 
them to it. Vista seems to want to copy/burn one file at a time and  
generally once something has been burned to a CD regardless of size, it won't  
let 
me add anything else to that CD. 
 
Trust me, my house isn't big enough to hold the number of CD's I would  
need........LOL
 
I have no idea what to do right now other than reformat or reinstall OS, or 
 just bring it back to Best Buy and let them figure it out. I have a 2 year 
 warranty on it, and I haven't even had the puter for a year yet. 
 
I think I prefer WIN 98 over WIN Vista (it's simplier for small  minds).  
:-D
 
Any suggestions for this hopeless PC-ER?
 
LilAnnie
 
My PC Stat's:
 
Gateway GT 5692
AMD Phnom 8450 triple-core processor 2.10GHZ
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit/32-Bit with SP1
Hard Drive: 500GB 
RAM: 4GB ddr2
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