Access connections problem

I am trying to use Access Connections to automatically switch my location profiles, i have 2 problems though:
1. every time I plug in my computer to the lan, first I receive an IP properly, then access connections seems to be siwtching profiles and the result is a 169.254 IP and therefore no connectivity, so access connection shortly thereafter switches on wifi and connects with that.
I have tried removing the profile and creating it again (while connected on the ethernet and also disconnected) but no use, same happens.
2. my company pushes a wlan profile which access connections realizes nicely and offers me to use that in the profile and takes me to the wireless settings page. on this page everything is grayed out (wlan settings come from a policy, so nothing to override) and clicking next just says: "enter wireless settings" which I cannot do as everything is grayed out...
Any ideas how can I fix thexe two problems?
thanks

Thanks for your reply!
If AC needs to manipulate the profile, I understand your reasoning, I can accept it.
The thing I don't get then is the following prompt:
"New profile(s) deployed by active directory have been found. Do you want to select a profile and apply it to this location profile?"
If it's deployed by ad - and therefore not supported by AC - then why can I "apply" it if I won't be able to get past the next screen? This is somewhat misleading - not nice UX .
Q1. Is there any other use for this prompt?
Q2. If the ad deployed WZC profile was set to no authentication - so that there's no need to "enter wireless settings", I would succeed, I guess?
My understanding was so far that AC doesn't manipulate directly (can create profiles though) the way Windows connects to the Wireless networks it just notices changes in connectivity and applies necessary settings (proxy, printers, etc. - which are not part of the domain policy WZC settings).
Q3. Am I getting this wrong?
If AC doesn't support domain policy WZC profiles at the moment, what is the process of suggesting features for a later version?
Thanks for your time,
Andras

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