Peter's lockout saga - Episode three

Well, it fixed itself. I unlocked his account at 8:30am today, and since then he is no longer getting locked out. So. Messed. Up.

We've been messing about with the ISA server, so maybe that's what caused it to stop. Hopefully this will be the last we'll hear about it.

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