Well I changed my password on a whim, changed my hint to "no hints". No I did not create a password reset disk. Moving on...
I have tried loginrecovery.com
the Offline NT thing
and the software on password-reset.com
There seems to be a common problem. On Peter Nordahl's thing (offline NT) it says "sam registry not loaded". Login recovery software says can't read hive file. The password-reset.com software just displays nothing.
And the icing on the cake is I can't find/lost my vista disk and everything else that came with my computer.
Its a dell inspiron 531.