Parent Controls aren't allowing access

I am an educator with 14 computers in my mobile lab. I can't seem to get Parent Controls to allow access to just the programs I want to allow. We went from Leopard to Snow Leopard and then Lion. I have installed all available updates and now have Mac OS X 10.7.5 but when I active the controls to allow only access to the Adobe CS6 programs the students still can't access them. I have searched all over and keep finding "How to" lists but it doesn't seem that others are having this same issue. Can anyone help?

Are you leaving the Mailbox Role checked?  You need to "uncheck" the role that you want to uninstall and then click next.  The license key has nothing to do with it.
See: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee332361.aspx
Tim Harrington - Catapult Systems - http://HowDoUC.blogspot.com

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