Sleep grayed out in apple menu. MBPro stopped locking out.

I have a MBPro we've been labbing with to utilize profile manager. After I transitioned some of the login screen preferences from workgroup manager to profile manager the client system/MBPro no longer will lock out when the lid is closed even though it's enabled under the security settings. The MBPro no longer has any profiles/mdm on it. I also noticed in the apple menu the sleep function/command is grayed out so you cannot select that option to make it go to sleep at all. Pre Mavericks I would assume one could dump the com.apple.systempreferences.plist, however it appears to not be so easy in mavericks. Any ideas for a quick fix on this? Thank you.

Additional info. When pressing the power button to sleep the system this error comes up:
4/14/14 10:45:15.950 AM loginwindow[83]: ERROR | SleepSystem | IOPMSleepSystem returned error: -536870174
followed by this when selecting the sleep option. (the system does nothing when selecting sleep)
4/14/14 10:45:13.556 AM com.apple.CrashReporter.ACRRDaemonPlugin[161]: Error saving state to file:///Users/xxxxxxxxx/Library/Application%20Support/CrashReporter/Intervals_5 2E8832E-75AF-5D0D-A0A1-6B5D79AA525E.plist
4/14/14 10:45:15.950 AM loginwindow[83]: ERROR | SleepSystem | IOPMSleepSystem returned error: -536870174
Still digging into it.

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