How do I get rid of Yahoo on bookmarks bar perminently???

I want to use parental controls on Safari. They work great except if you delete the preference file for Safari, Yahoo comes back to the bookmarks bar. I don't want Yahoo on there for obvious reasons. Is there anyway to stop that from happening?

Hi Javatoid,
The issue is that I want to have parental controls activated, so only certain sites can be viewed. However, deleting the safari preference file is a way around it. I don't want to have search engines on safari. Only selected web sites. What's the point of having parental controls on when the pref can be deleted and Yahoo is back with the ability to search for whatever the heart desires. The parental controls would be perfect if you could get around this problem.
Justin

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