[gmerin]

Since nobody mentioned this, I thought I might just throw this out for anyone else who gets in this situation with the login strike system: once triggered the striking system is restricting any account login (not just the one you failed to login to) from your ip address. This info is stored in the database table strikes which contains 3 fields (striketime, strikeip, username). After backing up the table and/or database (if modifying the database directly makes you anxious), you could (1) truncate the table strikes or delete from strikes where strikeip = <yourip>

i have dyslexic fingers and use this method regularly as an alternative to permanently disabling the login striking system.