[389-users] trouble with admin access

[Maurizio Marini]

i have played with password syntax, enabling and disabling and restarting each time dirsrv, 
until i was not able to see anything in the directory tree

then, i logged off by admin console and when i try to access again i see
Cannot connect to directory server:
netscape.ldap.LDAPException: error result(49): password expired!; Invalid Credentials

i followed Rich suggestion and i read this:
http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:AdminServerLDAPMgmt

but i cannot find anything  o=netscaperoot  related:
/usr/bin/ldapsearch -x -b o=netscaperoot -D "cn=directory manager" -w xxxx "objectclass=nsAdminConfig"
# extended LDIF
#
# LDAPv3
# base <o=netscaperoot> with scope subtree
# filter: objectclass=nsAdminConfig
# requesting: ALL
#

# search result
search: 2
result: 0 Success

# numResponses: 1


so admin config was lost? can i recover in same way?
should i reinstall again?

tia

-m