Cannot display login window as "List of users"

I am running Leopard Server, and I cannot seem to get my OS to display login window as "List of users".
The option is grayed out in System Preference, and if I use Workgroup Manager to set the Login preference for this computer to "List of users able to use these computers", my computer doesn't seem to respect that. Although it does respect the "Show Restart/Shut Down button" when I turn that on/off.
I tried to edit the com.apple.loginwindow.plist in /Library/Preference, no option found for display login window.
Help please, thanks.

The way to switch between the two options is:
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow SHOWFULLNAME 1
(turn on name list)
and
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow SHOWFULLNAME 0
(turn off name list)
and use
defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow SHOWFULLNAME
to see what the current setting is. Note that when you use the defaults command, you omit the ",plist" on the preference file name.
As always, beware of trying to bypass measures put in place to protect you, and be careful modifying preference files since you can lock yourself out or prevent your computer from booting properly.

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!! To make it easy for the rest of the family I want, like in regular OS X, to have the Login Window display as a list of users. !!
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