I was trying to run the update-manager but it was not playing nice. Every time I would launch update-manager it would ask for the "administrator password" which I didn't want to use. This also prevented me from running other applications as well (anything under the administration section in Debian).
Mike ran across the following article which suggested the following:
run "gksu-properties" and change "authentication mode" to "sudo".
That's all folks, things work just fine now.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/changing-graphical-auth-method-su-to-root-gksudo-856640/
