Task reassigned to Myron Hoeckle.

called him he was not in his office.

The padlock appears in a box in the middle of the 
screen. When he has a screen up he can continue 
to work with it, but the box obscures a lot of 
the screen. If he does not have a task up and he 
comes to the machine to perform some work, and 
the padlock box is up, he cannot do anything with 
it.

He rebooted and the padlock came back.