Changing an Admin's account password via ARD

Greetings!
I came across this posting on changing a user accounts password via ARD:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2130579&#2130579
I tried Vespazzo Unix command in this thread:
passwd (name of user)
(new password)
(new password)
as root, but in the "Send Unix Command" history window that pops up, next to each computer name under the "Status" column, all I see is a green check symbol with the words, "Changing Password for (account name)", and that's it. It won't go any further then that. Almost like it's hung on something. And I'm not seeing any progress bar indicating something is happening or is about to happen?!?
Am I missing something?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
MM
G5/2.5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Not sure what's going on with this, but I let ARD sit for about an hour or so, until I finally decided that this wasn't doing anything. I restarted my Mac and logged back in. Opened ARD and controlled into one of our design workstations as the admin, the password we usually use, didn't work! The new one did! I tried a couple of others and those worked too with the new password! So who knows what the problem with ARD was.
As long as the command worked, it's fine by me!
Thanks anyway...
MM

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