Can't login

[LuKreme]

So I was messing about installing some stuff on a separate hard drive  
from my boot drive and after I was done installing and playing about,  
I went to reboot off my boot drive and instead of getting auto-logged  
in to my account, I got a login screen.

Trying to login failed (I know my password), and I was not able to  
login to any of the other accounts on the boot drive either.

I booted off the install DVD and reset the password (the password  
reset utility only saw the admin user on the boot drive), rebooted,  
and STILL couldn't login.

I booted off my backup installation of 10.4 (10.4.7 though) and that  
went fine, even though my $HOME is alaised to the home folder on the  
regular boot drive.

I can't seem to 'get in' to the boot drive at this point, and am  
wondering if there is a way to blow away the NetInfo database and  
replace it with the one from my backup, or even just to examine the  
netinfo database from that drive instead of the one I am booted off of.

-- 
A man, in a word, who should never have been taught to write and  
whom, if unhappily gifted with that ability, should have been  
restrained by an Act of Parliment from writing Reminiscences.  - PG  
Wodehouse