lost admin password

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so I've searched everywhere, and all the responses were for Tiger or older, and no longer work, apparently Apple thought it'd be a good idea to make common sense inapplicable.

Anyway, I have a brand new MacBook. I love it, all that, blah blah blah. I didn't really have time to do much with it the first day I got it, so I've just been fooling around a bit on the standard user. But now, I go to install programs, and I can't, because I'm not an Admin. Which is fine, except I can't remember my password for the life of me.

I've yet to try reinstalling it from scratch. Don't really want to, either, so I ask, is there anyway to get/change that password?
 
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MBP 2.4/2GB/200HD/256 8600gt
reinstall. how can you forget a password that important :)
 
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If nobody else ever uses your laptop perhaps don't even bother with a password and just leave it blank. Thats all i have done. It still asks for the password, you jsut press enter when the screen pops up.
 

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