Cannot log into HP server after SmartStart Installation of Windows 2008

After using the HP SmartStart 8.5 CD to clean  install Windows 2008 to a ML350 G5 server I discovered I couldn’t log into the completed OS installation.

As soon as the brief moment of panic and anxiety went away I thought that maybe the password I used for the administrator during setup might have been to long (20 Characers). After truncating each character in turn I found that the password the SmartStart disc used was shorted to 14 characters.