I am unable to change my AD password in Lion

We have two installs of Lion running right now at my company, and we are both unable to change our Active Directory passwords through System Preferences, Users & Groups, Change Password.
This is the error we are receiving:
"Your system administrator may not allow you to change your password or there was some other problem with your password. Contact your system administrator for help."
We do have password strength requirements, but we are both following those rules. All my Snow Leopard people are still able to change passwords.
Any ideas?

Not sure why, but this has issue has been resolved by itself. For weeks it didn't work, and now it does. I am going to blame this one on our AD server.

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