Mulitple hard drives that i do not want Guest account to be able to access

i have a MacPro with 10.5.5. i have my main hard drive, one for time machine, one for my iTunes library and another for iPhoto library. i also have three external hard drives to back up all of the above. i would like to set up a guest account that has access to various programs, but NO access for the other hard drives. i have tried the parental controls and content, but it seems to pertain to folders, and not hard drives.
any suggestions?
thanks.

I have figured out an easy way to do this without the use of a third party application.
1- locate your drive in finder
2- right click and "get info"
3- extend the "sharing and permissions" tab at the bottom
4- authenticate to make changes
5- under "everyone" change the privilege to "no access"
6- lock up!
I tried this and when I signed onto the guest account the hard drive showed up as a folder with a little red icon. I was not able to access the contents of the folder from within the guest account.

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