All My Files, shows too much!

The "All my Files" function shows files that are inside locked folders. It even allows opening said files. This is not good! Thankfully they don't show up in spotlight, but that is little console.
Does anyone else have this problem, and is there a fix?
On another note, the forms we use to enter text on this site don't follow the usual "Mac" rules. You can't "3 finger" click a word to use the dictionary, right clicking doesn't give you the universal contextual menu functions... What gives?
John

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