Disabling Sleep Proxy Server

# This was posted under wrong area so re-posting here as suggested
I run a large University Network with a good 3000 pcs being a in a separate residential network.
On this network there are obviously a fair few macs and recently some have started doing weird things involving using other peoples ip addresses.
From my googling and research I find that they always use other macs ips and this is because they are acting as a Sleep Proxy Server.
Now these macs are non timecapsle macs and from what I understand the proxy server enabled because they once shared there network connection to there bluetooth/wifi.
It remains running even after the internet connection sharing is switched off.
What I need to know is how to turn off the Sleep Proxy Server on the affect macs which are always quite new 10.6 ones.
Why?
Well we use a lot of security systems to detect viruses and hacking attempts and pcs using non dhcp assigned ips which show up in our ARP tables is getting alot of people removed from the network. It is also making detecting the real threats increasingly difficult.
Please let me know what I need to do to switch this off on the macs that are doing it.
If you know how to disable on time capsules as well would be appreciated.
regards
Chris
ps. Sorry for silly alias, can't be bother to change at this point.

Anush,
It's not possible with JAVA nor any other language! Because, the proxy server is meant for
restricting the access to the resources and it's functionality can't be altered by a JAVA
program.
Since, even if u right a program in JAVA using java.net package to access the site [may
be porno...], still the request has to go out and reach the internet resource, only thru' the
same proxy server and hence it's not at all possible.
Only if the 'admin' of the proxy server grands rights to the user nothing else can be done.
-RK.

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