Can't disable admin account

I have created a new account on my macbook so that I can make it an admin and disable the admin status on the account I have been using.
But when I go to the 'Accounts' pane, the 'Allow user to administer this computer' flag is grayed out, so I can't remove the admin abilities.
Can anyone help?

happyaid wrote:
Yes it is. Does that make a difference?
Wait a minute - is that the answer to the former or the latter question?
If the former, you can't remove this user from the admin group if the short user name is "admin". You were warned about this when you originally set up this account as an admin account.
You'll have to change the short user name to something else first if you want to make it a non-admin account.
If your answer was to my latter question, see my post of a few minutes ago at the bottom of this thread.
Message was edited by: Király

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