Find My Mac issue on Mavericks

I'm running a mid-2007 (7.1) iMac with Mavericks 10.9.4.  I was attempting to try and uncheck Find My Mac  under the iCloud icon in System Preferences.  It keeps rejecting my password.  I get an error message saying System Preferences is trying to turn off Find My Mac.  Type your password to allow this.
I rebooted the computer into the recover partition and repaired permissions.  I've also repaired my keychain.  The iMac has been rebooted.  After rebooting if I just try and sign out of iCloud completely, I get the above mentioned error message.  If I try and uncheck Find My Mac I get the message again as well.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
       Ron

Nevermind.  Stupid error.  It was asking for my admin password and I was typing in my iCloud password.

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