Win 98 Administrators password

I have obtained a part time voluntary role within a local school in the ICT
department. Nothing technical, defragging, virus scans and general printing
problems, maybe helping out with very basic Word and a paint programme.

The PCs are networked and I tried to scan a document on one of the PC's with
Syphos and it said the data file was 4 months out of date. I guess the main
programme to download the data files would be accessed using the
administrators privilege.

However, although I have a list of all the passwords for each year class,
the Admin password was not listed.

I have contact previous the admistrator who left the role in June but he
said he could not remember ???

I also contacted the schools ICT support and they said all was lost, try to
guess, eg schools name, area, postcode, but as suspected it simply wasted an
hour of my time.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

kind regards


James