Icanadvise: There is a program called "Revelation" that reveals all masked passwords. Its a brilliant little prog, and I use it a lot. The version I use is 1.1. It's real old, and only like 15k
The guy has released a new version though, which you can download from
here (note it is snad, NOT sand)
You just drag the the cursor over the ******s and it reveals the password.
Just so you know, when i tried the new Version 2, zonealarm caught it trying to connect to the net. I've no idea why. I can post the original 15k version, that doesn't use the net, or you can look on a search engine.