Send a Unix command through ARD that will change a OS X admin user to a standard user.

I would love to send a Unix command through ARD that will change a OS X admin user to a standard user. The only thing I found close is
sudo dscl . -delete /Groups/admin GroupMembership USERNAME
which does remove the user from the list of admins, but they are still listed as an admin in the user preference panel, and can still use their account to authenticate for admin privileges.

I'm not having any problems adding or removing users from the 'admin' group by using the syntax's
dscl . -delete /Groups/admin GroupMembership ARDusername
or
dscl . -append /Groups/admin GroupMembership ARDusername
What I'm saying is if a user is ticked as an Adminstrator in System Preferences and I run the
dscl . -delete /Groups/admin GroupMembership ARDusername syntax and remove them from the 'admin' GroupMembership they still have the Administrator box ticked in System Prefs and can administer the machine.
By the way the '/' doesn't work in the syntax in ARD.
Thanks

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Our network administrator is getting ready to change the IP address of our DNS server. This means I have over 30 Macs that will be needing changes to their DNS settings. Since each machine is setup with limited access to the system prefs, that means I have to go to each machine and log in as the admin user to make this change. In the interest of saving time, is this something I can do with Remote Desktop and how? Would I use the same commands in this post and replace dns1 with our DNS' new IP address? Will this distrupt the users access to the network when I do so?
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click ok
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ProductName:          Mac OS X
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