minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters- not working, no matter what

Ok, I have minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters = 0 and when I try to change my password I get the error message
Password incorrect or New Password invalid. New Password length minimum: 6. Non-alphanumeric characters required: 0.
 
I even get the error if I put a character in the password. I changed the [A] from upper case to lowercase, I even took this web config section out of a working site with the reset password and no luck. What else could it be?
my config file;
<add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"
                 connectionStringName="DatabaseConnection" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true"
                 requiresQuestionAndAnswer=" ...