Can't stop applications automatically starting in user account

I created accounts for each kid.
Parental control is active, but no restrictions on which applications they can use; just website restrictions and time limits.
Allowed them to modify the dock.
Each time they log in various applications automatically start and removing them from the startup list does not seem to solve the problem, and one is not even on the list.
The "re-open windows" check box is NOT selected when they log out and I watched them quit the applications before logging out.
Example: for one account iTunes Helper always shows up on the startup list... I try to remove it in their account and it just pops back up... this appears to cause iTunes to autostart each time the log in... annoying.
Example: same account, the System Preferences always start up... fortunately it is locked so the kid can modify anything. But again, annoying.
I propagated read/write permissions through their account folders (thinking maybe some settings are not being recorded)... but no luck...
I may just try to re-create their accounts but was hoping to find the answer to this most perplexing issue.
Thanks,
mk

Aha! Even though they had permission to read/write their files, apparently the ownership was not theirs on all of the files, this must have restricted the mods to their account.
Thanks for the "jog".
Background:
This permission state stemmed from a full re-build/re-store I did about a year ago when the hard drive crashed (with encrypted files in the my account, no less)... The backups were out of date (long story) and it took about a week to recover and re-assemble the sparsebundle bands from the broken drive (I only lost 12 pictures!... Disk Warrior really helped with that one!)... anyway I managed to install a new drive and re-stored all of the accounts, but apparently some of the library states had me as the owner... If I think long enough I probably remember how that happened.
Again, thanks for "remembering" for me ;-)
mk

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