Newly created "managed account" with parental controls isn't logging in?

I tried to set up a managed account for my son to use over the weekend, but we are not able to get it to log-in. Each time I log out of my Admin account and we attempt to log-in to my son's account, the username and password appear to be accepted but then the desktop never loads. It just "hangs" with the spinning beach ball of death. Anyone have this problem or know the fix?
Thanks!

I should add that, in case you are making changes rather than adding parental controls, the last command should really be composed of the following two commands in sequence:
*sudo dscl -p -u directory_administrator /LDAPv3/ldaphost.local -mcximport /Users/ldapuserID -d newOD_user_parentalcontrols.plist*
*sudo dscl -p -u directory_administrator /LDAPv3/ldaphost.local -mcximport /Users/ldapuserID newOD_user_parentalcontrols.plist*
The first removes from the user record all keys found in newOD_user_parentalcontrols.plist. The second then actually puts the new information into place.
Check *dscl . -mcxhelp* for information on the -d flag. The man page is less than complete.

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