Allowed Apps don't show in Simple Finder

Ok, because of the nature of this problem I didn't know exactly where to post this, so hopefully this is a good place...
I work at a High School where we've got about 30 or so student laptops available for teachers to check out to use in their classes. They are all iBook, iBook G4, PowerBook G4, and MacBook computers, and all running OSX 10.4.11. The problem I'm having is with Microsoft Office X and Simple Finder. I have it installed on all of the computers, but for some reason the MacBooks won't show it in Simple Finder. It works just fine on all of the other computers, but the 6 that are MacBooks won't work. I set them up the same as all the others and nothing... I came up with the idea to try logging into a student account, running full finder and create aliases for Word, Powerpoint and Excel. I then returned to simple finder and they were all there and worked, but as soon as I logged out of the student account or restarted the computer the aliases were gone...
Hopefully that makes sense. It's really frustrating because other than this one problem the computers are all setup the exact same, so I don't know why the MacBooks can't just do it like the others do. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
(And if you know how to resolve this, in searching the forums I found a very similar (almost identical problem) post that is still unresolved in the leopard forums: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8358649&#8358649)
Thanks

I found a number of similar threads - it's apparently a bug.
I came up with the idea to try logging into a student account, running full finder and create aliases for Word, Powerpoint and Excel. I then returned to simple finder and they were all there and worked, but as soon as I logged out of the student account or restarted the computer the aliases were gone.
It sounds as if you are putting the aliases into
username/Library/Managed Items/My Applications/
That seems to be the right idea, with further workarounds designed to stop them from being deleted when you log out. One way, according to [this thread|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3183420&#3183420] is to lock the My Applications folder after putting in the aliases.
Another workaround described in [this thread|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5600449&#5600449] is to place the Office aliases somewhere else accessible, either in a subfolder of My Applications, or in the Documents or Shared folders.

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