cflogin and cfldap issue with passwords

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SOLUTION / FIX / WORK-AROUND to
ColdFusion <CFLDAP> exception DSID-0C090627

ColdFusion version: "MX7"

Assumption_01: ColdFusion server running on Windows-based operating system,
(for me particularly, I am currently on a Windows-XP-Professional machine)

Assumption_02: You are running your ColdFusion server as a DEVELOPER. Meaning you have logged onto your machine; you are doing research / development / experimentation ColdFusion as well as dealing with emails, etc.

This means: LDAP will be dealing with Microsoft's "Active Directory"

<cfldap
name="ldap_Qry"
action="QUERY"
attributes="cn,department,memberof"
start="dc=uconn,dc=edu"
server="LDAP.MACHINE.ON.YOUR_NETWORK"
username="#var_OperUser#@LDAP.MACHINE.ON.YOUR_NETWORK"
password="#var_OperUserPassword#"
filter="(&(objectclass=user)(sAMAccountName=#UCASE(var_target_UserId)#))"
>

note: the filter is whatever you are interested in.
In my scenario, we were trying to figure out whether we could do away having to keep a USERS_TABLE in our database to do webApplication authentication and simply let Active_Directory do the authentication. Why have a seperate userId/Password pair for each and every webApplication on your intranet in addition to network security ?
so #var_target_UserId#, for me was the input from a databasetable:[users.username]

My educated guess on what the error means:
* you have successfully reach the LDAP server
* however before you will be allowed to perform your query, you need to provide authentication.
* basically, LDAP server wants your username/password.

So, if your MACHINE / NETWORK UserId is [johndoe],
set #var_OperUser# to [johndoe]
set #var_OperUserPassword# to MACHINE / NETWORK PASSWORD

Speculation about PRODUCTION machines using LDAP query:
Probably the PRODUCTION's machine UserId & Password would be used. This would allow the PRODUCTION machine to log onto the network, access databases and send out emails.