Server Admin: VPN Connection Window all blank entries

Using Server Admin, when I goto..
VPN: Connections
It says I have 41 PPTP Connections, but they are all blanked out. There is no username, IP, Internal IP, Protocol, or Connected For. I wish I could attach a picture to show it. Only thing that keeps showing up in the error log is:
Fri Apr 9 00:59:23 2010 : sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0x3f1892c2> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Fri Apr 9 00:59:23 2010 : sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0xde8e1a6d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Fri Apr 9 00:59:23 2010 : sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0x33103b8e> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Fri Apr 9 00:59:25 2010 : sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0x45de7e2a> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Fri Apr 9 00:59:26 2010 : sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0x3f1892c2> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Fri Apr 9 00:59:26 2010 : sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0xde8e1a6d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Fri Apr 9 00:59:26 2010 : sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0x33103b8e> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Any chance it's a firewall issue?

Does nobody from Apple read this list?
My server still isn't working properly, and it's deeply frustrating.
Having done a lot of investigating I discovered that servermgrd is based on Apache, and I discovered where all it's files live. I've also discovered how to enable the debug menu in Server Admin.
If I try to access the "servermgr_info" command that I am seeing errors from in my servermgrderrorlog file via the command line (using sudo, so it executes as root, just as it should through servermgrd) then it works just fine with no complaints about access. The PasswordServer logs seem to imply that access gets granted when I run up Server Admin.
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The error message I get from Server Admin is as follows:
The login information is incomplete for this server or is not valid.
One or more services failed to accept the login information you provided for <myserver>. Check the Name and Password and try to log on again or contact your network administrator.
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