Allowing applications in Parental Controls problem

Greetings,
I set up an account for my young son with parental controls for the Finder set to Simple Finder. I checked off some games and other applications that I wanted him to have access to and included Microsoft Word in that group. For some reason, all but the MS word appear properly in his simple finder and I cannot for the life of me figure out why. I checked the permissions on the MS Word application and all user classes are set to Read and Write, including "Others".
Anybody got any ideas as to what is going on? Is there another way to set the permissions that I am missing? Is this a MS plot?
Also, My neighbor has a Mac with MS Office and we tried it on his machine with the same results.
Thanks in advance
Message was edited by: Tomzo

Tom,
I'm not surprised, probably because I had to repair Microsoft machines for years. One of the reasons they were years in federal court was because all, wordprocessors lets say, had to access one large library of files (whose name skips me). MS was charged with (among other things) purposefully modifying this proprietary file to cause WPs challenging Word in popularity to fail.
Early in 2000, the case was ordered dropped. Since then, most things made by MS for the internet won't work on Apples. (How much money is enough?)
However, My four-year old granddaughter has some suggestions for your son:
1. Though she uses a big, italic felt-tipped pen or carpenter's pencil for writing, she also likes 72-point type on TextEdit. Although she likes Apple Chancery (because it's calligraphic, like the handwriting I teach her), AppleGothic is more like school There exists a typeface identical to that used in Kindergardens, designed for American children to imitate, but I can't currently find it. It was free, though; offered by an educational organization. Ask by e-mail alias & I can look.
2. The 'DivX' video format shows full-screen movies beautifully over a 100 Mbps DSL. (When served by MS servers, the mpg4-based codec has been modified to be incompatible with any application not running on MS Windows, even Quicktime with [Flip4Mac|http://www.flip4mac.com/download.htm] and Windows Media Player. Though Flip4Mac was needed to view older NetFlix previews, they've been switching to Flash.
I've found that [Quicktime's extra codecs|http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/components.html] include DivX and the open source Xvid. [Stage6|http://stage6.divx.com> has some children's movies, to give you an example of DivX. DivX (or its open-source version), the new $40 Philips DVD player can play from disc (if you can find one).
3. The free Safari plug-ins 'FlashPlayer' & 'Shockwave' are used for many free, online games offered by the educational children's networks. My granddaughter is in pre-school, but when she awakes early, she uses my account to play games, listen to stories, or prints free coloring-book pages. (She's the only person in the house I've been able to teach to use a computer correctly.)
She tells me that although there were fewer advertisements on [NickJr from Australia|http://www.nickjr.com.au>, which allows you to download Flash games to play offline, and on [NickJr in the UK|http://www.nickjr.co.uk/play/games/flashHolder.aspx?name=dora_map&type=flash &height=359&width=600], but [NickJr in the USA|http://nickjr.kids.us> seems to have caught on and is now a good site.
[PBS Kids in the USA|http://pbskids.org> is her favorite, though [Jane & the Dragon|http://www.janeandthedragon.co.nz>, offered by Qubo, is mine. The [Clever Catapult|http://www.qubo.com/veggiegames.asp?game=piewar] (her 2d favorite) and the brilliant [Orbiting Astronaut|http://www.qubo.com/321games.asp?game=spacedpenguin] (her favorite) needn't have had (in my opinion) somewhat violent aspects.
The Orbiting Astronaut (Spaced Penguins) is truly brilliant (and, like most, requires the free flashplayer and shockwave be installed), and educational for me (PhD scientist): various shots will put the astronaut into either a circular orbit, two circular orbits that fill the space between, or elliptical or figure-8 orbit that 'wobbles', its paths filling space. (These are all different solutions to non-linear differential equations that used to require supercomputers to solve!)
4. She likes my saving each game as a weblink with an icon made from a screen capture of it. When on the road, for example, she plays many of these flash games offline, using the free [iSwiff|http://echoone.com/iswiff>, which also gives instructions for extracting the games from web pages.
Bruce

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