PLEASE HELP! Active Dir/Admin Permissions

Where do I begin?

Initially I had my computer with Win XP connected to the MC domain. I am granted rights to my pc. I was able to install software without ANY problems.

This weekend, I installed Win 7 Enterprise. First I installed my own local username (lemur) for installation purposes - with admin rights by default. So far, so good.

I added our domain (mc.uky.edu) and was able to login in with my univerity-wide username - mark1. And I successfully connected.

So I am logged in as mark1 on the MC domain.

My problem is installing new software. If I install, say, FF, I will be prompted "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer". It asks for an administrator password under the domain:mc.

When I enter the "mark1" and the password, it's not accepted.

NOW, if I enter my local computer address (this means I'm going OUTSIDE of the domain) and password, it's accepted.

This can't be right. Surely I should not be expected to do this, and it's cumbersome. Is there a way to prevent Win 7 from asking "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer"?

Again, this worked perfectly on XP without problem.

Thank you for your time, consideration and comments.

Lemur

Oh... I have no control over the domain. I have to request permission to change anything. But please keep in mind all worked well under X?

Don't want to go back and fourth about whether it worked on your previous install of XP or not, I will simply say that if your XP computer was a member (computer joined to the domain) of a domain. Then your issues would be the same except for the prompting by the UAC feature which is new to Win7...of course you can turn off UAC in control panel, however as a simple domain user that hasn't been granted local admin rights on your local machine you are still going to get prompted for a username and password who has elevated privledges.

Thanks. Well I'm gonna stand up for my "rights"! I have a ticket in. Let's see what they can do for me. Unless they say the don't support 7.

Are you sure you are logging in right? A lot of the Vista/7 prompt boxes require you to type in your domain credentials UPN or domain\username style.

Make sure that at the bottom of the UAC box it says "DOMAIN: MC" and not the name of the local computer.

Did you also make sure that your domain account isnt being taken back out of the local admin group by a restricted groups policy?

Jordus said:

Are you sure you are logging in right? A lot of the Vista/7 prompt boxes require you to type in your domain credentials UPN or domain\username style.

Make sure that at the bottom of the UAC box it says "DOMAIN: MC" and not the name of the local computer.

Did you also make sure that your domain account isnt being taken back out of the local admin group by a restricted groups policy?

Yep. I'm logged onto the domain, so that's not a problem.

I contact the powers that be and, hopefully, they will provide admin for local, all PCs on my OU, and my servers.

So, while I am waiting for IT to provide rights, there is another PRESSING issue.
I'm currently logged on locally (not through domain).

I have unfortunately noticed when I'm logged onto the domain, my #2 core goes to 100% and brings my pc to a standstill. This is very painful. Fast processor and 8GB memory (this is my work pc). Again, everything is cool when not logged onto domain.

Any thoughts?

Gracias!