Talk about a crazy bump
Anyway, I have the exact same problem on one of my sites, and not on the other...it wasn't like this to start off so it may be something I've changed.
Basically, from the admin control panel, I click on User Admin--> Permissions. I type in my user name and submit. There is a drop box 'User Level: User'. This says Administrator on my other site, which changes the color of my name on the forum index, and adds the link to go to the admin panel. For the life of me, I can not manage to change this value.
Does anyone know the location of this data in the sql database? Or perhaps what I might have done to cause this?