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Trouble authenticating and with groups. Phantom duplicate user account?

I'm sometimes having trouble authenticating and it seems I'm no longer a member of the 'admin' group. Or I am.... but I have two user accounts with the same name and only one of them is... or ...
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Why is there a new Group for me as a User?

Why is it that when I install Ubuntu with a user name, a new group is created with that name too? Is there a reason we're not just plain Administrators?