Other may have run into this, but the documentation on setting up M/R queue ACLs has a minor error:
'mapred.queue.queue-name.acl-administer-job' should be 'mapred.queue.queue-name.acl-administer-jobs' on http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.0/cluster_setup.html#Configuring+the+Hadoop+Daemons. Nick