Hi,

Daniel answered your question that the "c" key was the letter "c".  There are 
various keys that you can hold down while the Mac is booting that determine the 
boot mode.  Most of these stand for modes that are easy to remember. "C" stands 
for Boot from inserted CD or DVD; the Shift key  stands for Boot into Safe mode 
(a restricted access mode where you only bring up a subset of the operating 
system where audio and network connections are disabled -- this mode is not 
accessible, but certain problems can be fixed by just booting into this mode 
(without logging in), and then rebooting normally; "T" stands for boot into  
target disk mode (when you connect to another Mac via a Firewire cable and use 
its disk to boot the second machine -- this no longer works with the newest 
MacBooks that have no Firewire ports; "D' stands for boot from the hard drive, 
etc.

For the formal instructions see this Apple help article:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/11627.html
(Mac OS X 10.5 Help: If you forget your Administrator Password)

This describes the boot sequence and how to navigate to reset the password.   
Just make sure to start up VoiceOver as your first action after the Mac boots 
from the install disc (while you hold down the "C" key.  You may need to use 
Fn-Command-F5 on the laptop instead of Command-F5.  (I don't remember, so you 
may have to try both to start up VoiceOver).  Then select your language, etc.

HTH

Cheers,

Esther

Dr.Khalid wrote:
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