Here was the main Microsoft article that we were focused on. Unfortunately we didn't see the helpful tasks at the bottom until today.
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We got trapped looking at DCOM permissions shown under this article.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb633148.aspx
When we finally looked at WMI permissions by using this test.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb932190.aspx
After finding a problem connecting to the WMI namespace, we then used this article to recreate the correct permissions for the local "SMS Admins" group.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb932151.aspx