Applescript - Selecting Last Group in List

Hello,
I'm trying to select the Guest User in System Preferences. I've gotten to the Users & Groups pane, but I need some way to select the last group (guest user) without saying something like "Group 4" since I'll be using this on computers with variable amounts of users. I tried this:
tell application "System Preferences"
                              set current pane to pane "com.apple.preferences.users"
                    end tell
                    select last child of list 1 of application "System Preferences"
but it didn't work. Any suggestions?
Thanks!

I'm just going to disable the guest user using a shell script, but I'm still having the same issue trying to access "Login Options" at the bottom of that box. I've tried to see if there are any anchors (tabs) I could select by doing this:
get the name of every anchor of pane id "com.apple.preferences.users"
But it's not working.

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