Problem migrating user account SID

Problem migrating user account SID
I’m trying to migrate user accounts SID from a Windows 2003 domain to a Windows 2008 domain using the command line admt.exe. There is a trust between the 2 domains and I’m able to migrate a user account using admt 3.1 wizard including SID. The wizard asks me for a user account in the source domain with administrative right for the SID migration. In the wizard I use the same credentials as my current session. This works fine!!
But, when I’m using the command line “admt user” in an administrative cmd box i’m not prompted for any credentials in the source domain. My current credentials have the proper right in the source domain so that should not be any problem but admt is not able to migrate the user SID and gives the following error:
ERR2:7615 SID History cannot be updated for xxxxx. You must be an administrator in the source domain
Any ideas ??

I to am seeing this error - running on a Target DC.
Command line: admt group /O: GroupOption2.txt /F: test.txt /TO:corporate/Groups
Option File:
[Migration]
SourceDomain=Source.com
TargetDomain=corp.target.com
PasswordOption=Copy
PasswordServer=blade3.source.com
ConflictOptions=MERGE
[User]
MigrateSIDs=Yes
[Group]
MigrateSIDs=Yes
UpdatePreviouslyMigratedObjects=Yes
FixGroupMembership=Yes
MigrateMembers=No
UpdateUserRights=YES
[Security]
TranslationOption=Add
Error from the logs:
2010-02-15 11:47:14 ERR2:7615 SID History cannot be updated for test group deleteme. You must be an administrator in the source domain.
The account I am logged in to the target DC is a member of the Administrators group on both domains and of the Domain Admins on the source.
Any ideas? Searching (with Bing and that other one) only turns up two relevant hits, this thread and a win2000 tech net article.
Extra info:
Source: Windows 2003 (OS) - Windows 2000 native functional levels (domain and forest)
Target: Windows 2008 (OS) - Windows 2003 functional
Sorry for the retarded formatting.

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