Can't get Parental Controls Preference Pane to load

On a fairly vanilla iMac (Core 2 Duo, 2 GHz) running Mac OS X 10.5.4 I get the infinite colored pinwheel when trying to get into the Parental Controls pane of System Preferences.
This has been going on for several 10.5.x releases now, I can't remember exactly when it started.
I've tried repairing permissions and installing the latest combo updater (everything is up-to-date).
The error I see in the console is:
System Preferences[713] * -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (0) beyond bounds (0)
Any and all suggestions are welcome.
Thanks in advance.

Thanks - that's nice and clear - so only works if I set-up my children with separate log-on and restrict what they can view in their itunes view?
Is there any way of achiving the same with one single account?

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