Administrator lockout

[tokra]

I have a win2k professional SP3 system. It is not part of a domain. It has a corperate baseline loaded, that has been configured so that password complexity requirements and lockout policy applies to the administrator account. When I try to log on it says the administrator account has been locked. My coworker was using a diff pass so I know that the threshold for failed logins was exeeded, but I thought you could never lock Administrator out of the console. It says the account is locked out regardless of what I type for the pass. Is there any way of verifying whether or not it could authenticate but not log on?(IE I'm using the correct pass)

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[Haploe79]

This may just be a 24 hour lockout. Course if it isn't one option to recover admin privs (though you would lose users and permissions set) would be to delete the sam on your machine. Can't do it while Windows is up and running, but can boot to a floppy, but an ntfstodos proggy and delete the sam that way. Windows will rebuild it on boot and reset ya back to no password. Lose users set, but gets ya admin back without format..