Can't run update-manager even if I am in the sudoers file (Debian)

First I would like to send a major thanks you Mike for finding the answer to my question.

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/