Multiple accounts on my iMac

I bought my iMac in March 2009. I set up four accounts on it. Two accounts are administrators (my husband and I), and two accounts are parent-control managed. For the past two months, the parent controlled managed accounts will not open. When my children log in, there is a blank screen (with the iMac "star wars like" screen). I noticed that this occured after attempting to tighten parent controls on one account after discovering one child was accessing content that they should not have. I have tried to delete both accounts and set up new ones (although with the same names), to no avail. Please help!!!!

I have added a separate user account for each Apple ID, but the iMac decides to update software, it won't let you if it was downloaded under the other apple ID.
We are a business, we set up the macs for our faculty and staff, we install some basic stuff such as Microsoft Remote Desktop. iMac want's to update this but won't let the user (who has admin provleges) because it was installed throught he other account.
Hiw is this suppposed to work in a business environment?

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Shannon Coffey1 wrote:
At first I tried to connect on facetime from my imac account to my MBP computer but was unsuccessful because I suspect I was using the same email for both.
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