Yes It works for the admin too!! When you upgrade to 4.0.2 you have to reinstall the translation again, restart tomcat and clean the browser buffer cache (firefox: ctrl+shift+r) and the admin translation is
here Msgs.zip by Pbruna (attached file in last post of Pbruna) have three files:
AjxMsg_es_ES.properties
ZmMsg_es_ES.properties: For user
ZaMsg_es_ES.properties: For admin