Blocking system preferences in user accounts

Hi is there an easy way to gray out the system preferences panes on user accounts in Snow Leopard? I have been using workgroup manager and it will work for a time but then spontaneously stop and require me to re-manage everything again. Not sure if I am doing something wrong in workgroup manager or if I am using it for the wrong task, but it doesn't take for any length of time. Thanks for the help.

Hi is there an easy way to gray out the system preferences panes on user accounts in Snow Leopard? I have been using workgroup manager and it will work for a time but then spontaneously stop and require me to re-manage everything again. Not sure if I am doing something wrong in workgroup manager or if I am using it for the wrong task, but it doesn't take for any length of time. Thanks for the help.

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