Group preferences

We have a small network of eMacs logging on to a PowerMac G5 using Directory Access. The clients are 10.4.4 and the server is 10.4.4.
Everything works perfectly.
We are trying to set up Group Preferences.
We have multiple user accounts some of which are students and some are teachers.
We add a new group called 'Students' for example. We set the Group Preferences (for example - no access to System Preferences). We add a Group for 'Teachers' and we set the Group Preferences (for example - limited access to System preferences.
We go back to our user accounts and make the 'Student' accounts members of the 'Student' group - giving them that group as the primary Group ID.
We expected that the Preferences set for the Group to be passed on to the members of that group - it is not.
If you set the Preferences for the user accounts individually it works fine.
According to the manual it should work, any ideas any one?
Also setting preferences for access to Applications - how can you limit which Applications are accessible by users? You can set this on the server but this only applys to applications installed on the server and not on the client machines - any ideas on this one?
I hope this makes sense to some one and appreciate any feed back from people how have successfully made this work or have experienced the same problems.

First off, groups are used more like "roles". The user will only get the preferences for a group if the select that group at login time. This happens automatically if the user only has one choice, so hold down the option key during user login to see if the group you want appears in the group picker window.
As a side note, I don't use the primary group id to assign groups anymore. There are some cases with nested groups were the primary group id does not work.
Finally, for setting applications access: Run Workgroup Manager from the client computer. The apps you want should be present on that computer.

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Hi,
After upgrading to Lion from 10.6 i got this message. Preferences pane : Could not load Users & Groups preference pane.
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I am still getting the same message :
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Preference Error
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1. You have a corrupt user picture.
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3. Back up all data if you haven’t already done so. Before proceeding, you must be sure you can restore your system to the state it’s in now. If you don't have backups, or you don't know how to restore from them without being able to log in, STOP.
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22-10-09 01:00:48 [0x0-0x11011].com.apple.ScriptEditor2[703] Reason: image not found
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Process: mount_cifs [851]
Path: /sbin/mount_cifs
Identifier: mount_cifs
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: AppleScript Editor [703]
Date/Time: 2009-10-22 01:00:48.804 +0200
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.1 (10B504)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/ThursbySecurity.framework/Versions/A/ThursbySecurity
Referenced from: /sbin/mount_cifs
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