Computer freezes when screen is locked and login through ARD

I have a couple of various mac labs across a campus and I've been dealing with a fun little problem. All the macs are bound to Active Directory, running ARD 3.2, some are OS X 10.4 and some 10.5, but they all do the same thing. When doing some maintenance I like to lock the screens to prevent users from seeing the screen and interrupting the work. The problem is that I lock the screens, then use an auto-login Unix script to login to all of the computers at once. My ARD admin client displays that all the computers are inactive and when I look at the computers face to face they are frozen on the locked screen. The only solution is the manually shut down each computer because I have no control over them through ARD.
The same thing seems to happen if I login to the computers, then freeze the screen and try to logout. The logout process does the same thing and locks up the computer.
Anyone else been having this little issue or a possible solution other than just waiting until after the computers are logged on, then locking the screens?

Has anyone submitted this as a bug to Apple, yet?
I've got the same issue, but if you've allowed 'Remote Login' in Sharing, you can then ssh in to the machine and kill the lock and user you tried to log in with before the 'ARD Not Active' status change. Save's you a trip across campus...
I've found that it's the logging in or out, as previously mentioned that is causing the failure. Observing machines has no ill effects.
I also found that if i control the machine, log in, and then use the 'Lock screen while i control' button in the window top, it works fine - AS LONG AS you click it again before you log out of the remote machine. A workaround that has gotten me through until now.

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