Using SUDO In Terminal - Mavericks

Before Mavericks, I could run an administrative command in Terminal, it would prompt me for a password, I would type the password to my admin account and everything worked fine.
Now, when I run an administrative command, I get prompted for MY password. I then see the following error message:
Sorry, user " " is not allowed to execute ...
How can I repair this so when I run a command using SUDO, I get prompted for the administrative password again.
I followed the process of enabling the root account and set a password for it, but this is still not working. Do I need to reboot or something?
Thank you for any help!

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Look at the boot logs.
Perform a verbose bootstrap.
Figure out what's wrong or come up with a theory, try some specific changes to prove or disprove the theory, reset the changes back if the tests don't work out, and try another change.
Try a clean Mavericks install, and compare how fast that boots.
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