Setup Admin Password and Cluster is No Longer Editable

Hello,
We've been in the process of configuring a Qmaster farm with ~40 machines and a controller. Up until last night it was working fine.
To close out the project we defined Administrative and User passwords for the farm. After doing so the farm is now un-editable and cannot be deleted. Anything we do to try and change settings (after unlocking in Qadministrator) gives us the error: "The farm is being edited by another user or is unavailable". We've tried various things like rebooting, rebooting without network, shutting down the farm machines. Nothing we do now can get rid of this error and it's a problem because we cannot unbind the farm machines in order to simply create a different farm with similar settings.
We've also tried looking at config files, but there is one that specifically deals with the farm configurations, but it is fully encrypted.
Any advice on what to do will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Keith

And the plot thickens . . .
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