Service Account for SQL Server Agent on SQL Server 2008 R2

This SQL Server instance is SQL Server 2008 R2 (10.50.4000). We had Active Domain Service accounts created to run the service accounts for SQL Server and SQL Server Agent.
It has become company policy to alter the service accounts that run SQL Server and SQL Server Agent. Currently, both were running under the Local System Accounts. We have altered the SQL Server but we are having issues with the SQL Server Agent.
I am told by another DBA that
"The agent is requiring elevated rights. It will startup if it has local admin rights, but not with domain accounts without admin rights."
So I was wondering if anyone has come across this issue and how did they resolve it.
lcerni

"The agent is requiring elevated rights. It will startup if it has local admin rights, but not with domain accounts without admin rights."
This is completely not true. It is indeed possible to run agent as a domain account without giving it local admin. Chances are you'll need to update the local acls by adding the account to the local security groups. Please see this article for more information:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143504(v=sql.105).aspx
Edit: In addition, it'll need rights to SQL server for that account to connect and do its work. It will need to be given sysadmin:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191543.aspx
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A domain user has complete Read on everything in the forest.
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Everyone group does not include anonymous security identifier
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278259
As for Pre-Windows 2003, I haven't come across anything that would say
pre-2003. It almost appears that the software is using NULL or some other kind of reduces security on the password. Then again, I could totally be wrong. Is that specifically how the third party software specifies it in the docs?
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