I went to the link that MsMittens linked to:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
as I have been looking for a half decent tool such as this ever since I lost my USB sitck that had my 'tool kit' on.

I tried it out on my own laptop first, and buggered my admin password up!

I tried resetting it to my AO password - qwerty123 - just to see if it would work. It didnt, it remained unchanged. Sooo then I tried to reset it to a blank password using the * switch - and now it wont accept anything!

Great!

Soo - anyone recommend a different good preferably free, utility to reset my resetted admin password?

Thanks!