Joomla Login Probelm?

I’m running Joomla 1.0 (1.0.14 I believe) and I’ve been having problems with logging into Joomla. From what I can tell, every single time I log in, I eventually get taken back to the login and I have to log in again.
It does that only the one time, per session, and after I log in the second time, it’s fine; everything loads properly and doesn’t come up again.
That was fine; it was annoying, but that was it. Another problem, along the same lines, is starting up that’s making it impossible to get back into Joomla and I have to wait, I don’t know how long to get back in.
There have been a couple of times in the last 1-2 weeks, where my computer locked up or I just plain got booted out of the system, possibly because I was idle for too long - I don’t know. But when I tried to log back in, it wouldn’t do anything. I’d put in my user name and password and click submit, the screen would change, as if it were processing it, but instead it comes right back to the login page - and it does that every time I’d try to log in. On the first two occasions this happened, it was getting late as it was, so I just left it be for the night, came back the next morning and was able to log-in just fine (much to my relief the first time it did this and I didn’t know why I couldn’t log-in)
Well now it happened to me again today; only this time I actually manually logged out and then realized I wanted to check something else out about a minute later - only to not be able to get back in.
After several failed attempts to get back in, I said fine, forget it; I’ll wait a couple of hours and then hopefully I should be able to get back in - that was over 3 hours ago and I still can’t log into the system. Why is it doing this? What’s the time limit before I can be let back into the system and how can I change this so I don’t have this problem any more?

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