Blue screen after Parental Control times out

I upgraded our two-month-old iMac to 10.5.1 yesterday expressly so we could limit our kids' time on the computer. Now, when their account times out the screen goes all blue and there's no log-in screen. The only way to get a log in screen is to shut down and restart. And no, we don't have application enhancer. Already checked that. Anybody else experiencing this?
(The wife is also complaining because all her applications--especially Mail-- are running much slower since upgrading. Now I'm just another Mac fanatic with egg on my face...sigh)

I just logged into this discussion looking for the same issue and am experiencing it as well. When you click cancel at the extend time popup you often get the blue screen and a spinning icon in the middle of the screen. My only recovery has been to shutdown and restart.
I have a older iMac 1.8 ppc 20" and leopard. I also had a bad slowness issue and have since archived and re-installed. After doing that, my speed returned and it is MUCH faster now.. You may just try that.
I'd also like to post a related question that I have (hopefully someone at Apple may see this post), In regards to the Parental Controls. If I want to set a 3 hour daily max time, when that time is up, it seems to just return the to the sign on screen but DOES NOT actually log the user out. Im not sure if that is possible under 10.5.1 but it would be nice if it was. Or at least the option to set it at the user level to actually log them out. Has anyone else experienced this or have a suggestion?
thx

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