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If for some reason the default exercise file username (admin) and password (booth) don't work, you can change them in the database itself using phpMyAdmin. (This technique is demonstrated in a video from Chapter 8, "Recovering from disasters".)

1. Open your Drupal database with phpMyAdmin.
2. Go to the "users" table. Click the Browse icon.
3. For the row where uid = 1, click the Edit icon. (Note the value under the "Name" column: That's the administrator's username.)
4. In the "pass" row, select "MD5" under the "Function" column
5. In the same row, enter your new password under the "Value" column.
6. At the bottom of the screen, click the "Go" button.

You should now be able to log in with that username and new password.

Skip Taylor reported on drupal.org:

I wanted to see the video quality so I tried one of the free demo tutorials. There's audio and a green background. I have the latest QuickTime installed and using Firefox 3 with the QuickTime plug-in. Should there be more to this than a green background?

Indeed there should. :) Lynda.com gave him the following steps, which solved the problem:

I had to change a setting in Quicktime 7.5:

1. Open the QuickTime Application
2. Go to: Edit > Preferences > QuickTime Preferences
3. Click on the Advanced tab
4. In the Video section (midway down in the window), select the option for Safemode (GDI only) instead of DirectX
5. Restart the browser.

Please comment here if that doesn't work for you.

The username and password to log in as the administrator for the Drupal Essential Training example site are:

USERNAME = admin
PASSWORD = booth

We mention it at one point in the course, but should have given it more frequently. Sorry for the omission.