Guest account will not auto logout

I'm using a number of Snow Leopard machines in a public computing setting using the Guest account quite successfully. However, when the idle timer ticks over, the dialog box confirming the Guest account's files will be deleted comes up and does not time out (like a normal account would). So the machines never auto log out. In an environment where most users don't log off to protect their privacy, this is an annoying problem.
Is there a way to turn off that dialog box confirming logout? Or some other way to get my Guests to auto log off?
Thanks.

I've found the guest account is great in a lab/classroom setting, but I need to be able to have the computers run a scheduled shutdown at night so they can reset for the next day. It was a real disappointment to see that the energy saver schedule wouldn't work because of the prompt about files being deleted. Has anyone come up with a way to bypass the prompt or force the logout/restart/shutdown option? I'm surprised I haven't been able to find more results from my search on this topic.

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