H E L P ! ! Managing Parental Controls & Cloning using Apple Remote Desktop

Hello folks,
I work in an UK University managing a Lab of Mac Pro's. We've just had a kit upgrade and I've spent the last few days installing and configuring the systems. There are two accounts on each machine; an 'administrator' and a 'student' (a managed account). All managed by Apple Remote Desktop.
Basically, after installing the OS 10.6 and other software, I've setup one machine as I would like it to be and want to clone 'Parental Controls' settings from one machine to the rest. Sounds simple. Hmmm. Well despite being able to see all the other machines on the network and connecting to them using the administrator login, the settings won't copy.
I have being using the 'Copy' & 'Paste Settings' in the Parental Controls Prefs Pane, ensuring that the "Manage parent controls from another computer" is ticked on the destination machine. The settings appear to copy, or when selected duplicate, so there appears to be two versions Photoshop, Illustrator etc etc.
I've follow the limited information I've found on the net, but am still experiencing problems. I've run Disk Utils, checked and repaired the Permissions, used Time Machine to copy the settings using Migrate Users Utility.
I'm not sure if these issues are connected to a problem I had with CS3 licensing where the volume licence "stopped" working. As the Adobe apps are the constantly stating, on the "student" account, that the user doesn't have permission to open them. Despite being ticked in the Parental Controls Panel. I've cured this on one machine, the one I want to clone the Parental Prefs of.
Well … after that monologue - can anyone suggest a way of cloning these prefs (wherever they live) rather than having to format and use Time Machine to clone the entire OS and Mac?
I'd love a Unix command which I could send from ARD - but I'm a still a little green to it's use.
All comments, solutions and help gratefully received.
Thanks in advance,
Dan

Hi
+"Is there any way to permanently install parental controls in on a mac mini with Snow leopard server software on it?"+
I don't think so? Besides there's no need for it. Parental Controls is available as a Managed Preference (or MCX) using WorkGroup Manager either at Users, Group or Hardware Level. Launch the application and click on the Preferences icon and you'll see what I mean.
Tony

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