vino password not working after 2.16 upgrade

[Scott I. Remick]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>
> I had to re-enter my password in the Remote Desktop capplet before I
> could connect to vino after the upgrade.

Argh... did a portupgrade last night which touched some gnome bits, and 
now the problem resurfaces. This never happened before in past gnome 
versions. If there was a way to fix this remotely I could live with it, 
but so far nothing I've tried works.

I came across these two threads but they don't help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=266981
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1592817

I've tried using the following 2 commands to stop and restart vino:
Code:

gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/remote_access/enabled false 
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/remote_access/enabled true

I've also tried running those after changing the base64 password hash in 
the xml file to something else. I've also tried -HUP on vino-server. 
Nothing works.