How do I turn all parental controls off PERMANANTLY?! urgent PLEASE help

I was playing around on the computer when i stumbled upon "parental controls." I clicked on the control for iChat, and it acted like a parental control. but when i unclicked the control because i wanted to go back to iChat, all my buddies were back, but NONE of them were online, which is impossible because not even the robots were online, or some of my friends who are always on at this time. How do I fix it to get my buddies back?! *PLEASEEEEEEEEEEE HELP!!!!!!!!*

Hi,
Only an Admin Account can turns Off Parental Controls.
Go to System Preferences > Parental Controls.
Set the controls Back to the basic defaults and then set Parental Controls to be Deselected.
Then go to System Preferences > Accounts and then click the Padlock if required.
Enter the Admin Password.
Now click on the User Account that you are Logged on to the computer with. (Or the one that had Parental Controls set).
Make sure Parental Controls is Off here as well.
This should make the Buddy list respond properly.
NOTES
IF you have a Test Mac User Account and use the Same Screen Name in iChat in both User Accounts the Test account Parental Controls will flag your Account/Screen Name at AIM and will be effected in the normal User Account buddy List.
In iChat 3 and 4 Parental Control for iChat disable Bonjour Chatting and Jabber/GoogleTalk Buddy Lists
8:49 PM Thursday; April 2, 2009

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