I set up windows 8 RTM x86 a couple of days ago. I set up my personal account for me using my microsoft ID, set up my desktop and all my settings, removed the account from the administrators group (seriously, why is it STILL added by default?). Needed to make some system changes a couple of days later so I rebooted into safe mode, logged on as the administrator, made the changes, and rebooted. And it wanted me to log on as administrator. There was no option to switch accounts or log on as someone else. I figured my personal account got eaten, so I went to create it again. In users/other users, it said there were no other users on the PC. I clicked the plus, entered the microsoft id email, confirmed, and it said an account with that microsoft ID already exists.
net users shows that my account is there. The local user management console shows the account is there. Why is it not displayed as an option to log on?