Parental Controls - Has anyone in the world actually made it work?

This function has got to be the least thought out, badly implemented area of any Mac OS X operating system. To put it bluntly, it's a pile of $hit! Normally I don't complain about my macs but the parental controls are driving me up the wall.
It's so bad I've had remove it from the kids account which defeats the object of it being there in the first place. I tried using the restricted access but impeded them enormously when researching for school projects etc, so I switched it to unrestricted accesss but even that doesn't allow any kind of accesss to secure webpages, so they can't upload their school work on the school's database, etc. I've resorted to manually dumping some restricted websites into the hosts file, which is a right pain in the arse.
I haven't even got as far as some of the other complaints that I have read. The time controls that don't work, circumventing passwords when pressing cancel, etc, etc. Who did Apples assign this programming to? The catering staff? Microsoft? Even Microsoft have got an infinitely better built in parental controls system in Vista.

Try downloading and installing the Leopard Server Admin Tools (works fine on standard Leopard; OS X Server not needed), and then use Workgroup Manager to set limits on accounts. There's a whole lot more fine-grained control with WM. It's like Parental Controls on steroids.

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PN_error.png ‏44 KB
PN_error2.png ‏20 KB

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