>>If you can't remember ever explicitly changing the router password (a lot of people don't), then it may still be at the factory default. For example, for many Linksys models the default user name is < blank >, and the password is "admin". For other models you can get the default user name/password from your manual, or even off the web.
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>Web is the way to get the manuals. The printed manual may not even fit your model exactly (as used to be the case quite often - they switch the model before they print the new set of manuals). The manual you get from the manufacturer's site is more likely to be the correct one, and is usually easier to find ;).
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>Just last week I bought a speaker system, and of course there's a jungle of cables behind my machine. Didn't want to unplug everything just to be able to see the colors of the jacks (and this thingy has four of them), so I took the mirror and found that the colors don't actually match anyway. The motherboard is two years old, so where's the manual. For that matter, which motherboard do I have, anyway? OK... go to newegg, see the old order; it still keeps the data for me. There's the motherboard, with a link to manufacturer's product page. Once there, download the manual (pdf), print the two relevant pages, done.

But didn't you want to dig through drawers and file cabinents looking for the manual? Sounds like a ton of fun to me. ;-)