How to stop a program from automatically starting up at login..

Each of our children has an account on my computer. Recently my son has installed Skype using his account. It starts up everytime he logs in. I tried to disable this auto start up but I think I ran in to a bigger problem.
None of the other accounts are able to configure their own accounts (about half of all the other system preferences are also greyed out) and when I, logged in as the administrator, try to configure their accounts there is no 'Login Items' tab.
I tried it by looking for the 'StartupItems'-folder in all of the Libraries but there are none. The 'LaunchAgent' and 'LaunchDaemon' folders are in the System Library but are empty.
Maybe something is wrong with the preferences...
Anybody any ideas...??

icks and it's done!
The underlaying problem remains though (why can't I find any 'startupitems' folders. and why are two of the accounts not able to configure their own accounts?)
login items that you add from the dock or account preferences are handled differently. they are recorded in the file homedirectory/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist
this file is read at the login and items listed there are executed. deleting this file will clear the login items list.

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