Error Adding Node to SQL 2008 R2 Cluster

Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit. SQL 2008 R2 64bit.
The Windows Failover cluster is installed with 2 nodes. SQL Cluster was installed successfully on node 1. Ran SQL setup to add a SQL node 2. Made it to the service accounts screen. The SQL Server Agent service account name box is grayed out and nothing can
be entered. If I hit next I get the following error. I can't get past this. I looked for any cumulitive updates for R2, but there aren't any. Does anyone have a work around? If not I will have to scrap the install and go back to the non R2 version of SQL.
[Error Message]
The credentials you provided for the SQL Server Agent service are invalid. To continue, provide a valid account and password for the SQL Server Agent service.
[Details]
Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Agent.InputValidationException: The credentials you provided for the SQL Server Agent service are invalid. To continue, provide a valid account and password for the SQL Server Agent service.
================================================================================

After searching around on the Net and reading a few other people with the same problem, it has to be a bug in the GUI.
Run the command line to initiate the setup and it will add the account settings automatically when you come to that page.
setup.exe /ACTION=AddNode /INSTANCENAME="<Insert Instance Name>" /SQLSVCACCOUNT="<SQL account used on other nodes>" /SQLSVCPASSWORD="<password for SQL account>" /AGTSVCACCOUNT="<SQL Server Agent account used on other nodes>"
/AGTSVCPASSWORD="<SQL Server Agent account password>"

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