Managed Account..MSN Messenger won't work

I have 2 accounts, an admin and a managed user. MSN Mac Messenger works on the admin account, but i cannot get it to work on the managed account. I have the managed account set to Some Limits in Finder and System and i have checked the applications that user can use. MSN Messenger is there, but when i login to that manged user account, i click the application and it simply won't work. No message comes up, it just bounces in the dock waiting to go, but nothing ever happens.
please help...thanks

I don't know anything about "Messenger" specifically, but it probably relies on "helper" apps to perform at least some of its functions. In an extreme case, it could even be that the icon you click on has the sole purpose of launching other apps.
A real example of the "helper" effect (I couldn't think of one off hand earlier) is Apple's "Image Capture.app". Allowing "Image Capture.app" isn't enough to let a "Some Limits" user download pictures from a digital camera (actually, this was true in 10.3 but I haven't checked 10.4), because when a camera is attached, "Image Capture.app" launches one of the many device class specific applications in "System" > "Library" > "Image Capture" > "Devices", which I'm guessing are needed to communicate with the camera. If "supporting programs" are allowed, then the "Camera.app" is allowed to be launched by "Image Capture.app", even if "Camera.app" itself isn't "approved" (and if users were to try to launch it directly themseves, they would be denied access). If "supporting applications" are not allowed, it is necessary for the "admin" to "approve" both applications individually.
Allowing "supporting programs" then allows an "admin" to easily "approve" applications without the need to learn all of the inner workings of any given programme, and in fact, this was the default in "Panther" (with no GUI means to turn it off in fact). The drawback is that it creates a huge loophole whereby some apps (including standards that come with OS X) have features that allow them to be used to launch any other app on the system, rendering "user limitations" useless. There used to be lots of posts on this site complaining about this one, and the fact that there was no GUI way in OS X client to turn off the setting made it a real pain to deal with.
So as with other matters of security, it becomes a trade-off between security and convenience. I suppose that as long as the restricted user doesn't discover the loophole, or the computer is in a location where the discovery of a loophole would be noticed, the current setup would probably be sufficient. If not, hopefully it won't be too hard to deteremine the identity of the helper apps so that "supporting programs" can be turned off and the "helpers" approved separately.

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