Can't change password or delete a Mac OS X account

I set up an account for my son (6 years old) so that he could have his own desktop and access to his own 'stuff' w/o getting into my stuff. I'd like to change the password (I just used my password) to something easy for him. But when I go into 'accounts' it doesn't let me change his password. I log on as an administrator but the change password button for his account doesn't lite up. I also thought about deleting his account and starting over, but I can't delete it either. I've clicked the lock at the bottom as well and that doesn't seem to work... Any ideas?

How do you log out? Is that different from just switching from one account to the other? I use the pull-down tab in the upper right corner with our names on it to switch from one to the other... But never really 'log out.'

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