We use a password generator that sometime gives us characters that are not allowed. However this time I did not see a warning or anything. When we looked and decided to change the password finally I worked. I looked at the logs when I run reports and hsql threw an error while using the bad password. It cleared while going through a kb on login error to reports. I was trying to verify port 9001 when suddenly it cleared. I made no phone calls to the server or McAfee guys about that port and suddenly it worked after the password change.
Thanks for the reply curtisi.