Firmware Password Not Changing

I have a iBook G4, from a school who had a surplus. But it had firmware on it, and although I was able to get rid of the firmware protection by physical access, I can't change the password. Every time I launch the program, and try to set the password it reverts back to the old password (I know this because my set password doesn't work) and I have to open the computer up again to get rid of the password.
I also tried to just disable the open firmware password before opening the computer up from the admin account and it won't even turn off!
How can I get the firmware password to what I want?

I fixed by resetting the firmware then going into firmware then typing...
password
(I entered the password here)
(I verified the password here)
setenv security-mode full
shut-down
And it saved my password! I won't be using the GUI interface from Apple anymore.

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