Bios Setup using WMI (WMI is missing)

Hi, I am trying to make changes to the bios using the information found here:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-68488
However, on a refurb L430 that we just bought through the "http://outlet.lenovo.com/" site, the WMI class does not exist. I am making the call from C#. I also tried running the supplied sample scripts and they do not work either. So then I checked Computer -> Manage -> Services and Applications -> WMI Control -> Properties -> Security and browsed to Root/WMI and the class "Lenovo_BIOSElement" does not exist there. The only class shown is "ms_409"
Is there an installer for the Lenovo WMI class? Is this supposed to be present on all of the supported devices listed in the "Lenovo BIOS Setup using Windows Management Instrumentation Deployment Guide"? Are the WMI calls no longer supported?
Thanks
-Mike
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I think I got it working somehow...
I modified the C# method to use the class "Lenovo_BIOSSetting" instead of "Lenovo_BiosElement".
When running my executable, I first got access denied. I reran it as administrator and was able to view all of the 80 management instances. I then reran the script "ListAll.vbs" and now it is populating properly.
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