That's really, really strange -- this is not something I've ever seen before.
The first thing I'd try doing is logging out, clearing your cookies, closing ALL browser windows (eg: completely exit your browser), then launch your browser and try logging in as admin again. If the problem still persists after that, we can diagnose it further, but it sounds very much like your PHP session has been corrupted. Clearing cookies and restarting your browser will dissociate your browser from the session and should fix it if that is in fact the problem.