Parental controls blocking ichat?

Hi, I recently made my son's account on our Mac not the Administrator and I made an account to be the new Admin. This is so that I can turn on the parental controls. I made no choices in the parental controls about iChat, I only used the time limit functions and the log functions. However, now that parental controls are enabled, my son's iChat is not working. It shows up as if he has no buddies, online or offline, and if you add a buddy the new buddy shows up under offline and is blocked. Then the buddy disappears. It seems that iChat is blocking him from talking to anyone. How can you fix this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Let me see if I have under stood this.
There were at least two accounts on the computer that were Admin ones.
You son had one of these.
You have now made him a Non-Admin and Managed account through Parental Controls
You have created another Admin Account.
With the New Admin account you set the Parental Controls on your Son's account.
You did not do this from the Original Admin Account ?
If......
Your son was using the original Admin account and you set him up with iChat there it will have been linked to the Address Book.
If you then set him up with a new User account that was Not Admin but copied the Address Book across then you can have issues.
I have seen them if you use the iChat/Mail settings where the original Users Info has been transferred across but the Parental Controls overide things (and vice Versa as iChat is then somewhat unusable in the main Admin account as the Buddy List is effectively blocked).
I have not experimented with having two admin accounts and changing the original (first) account to a Managed one.
I have not tried Timed/schedule settings only either
DO NOT DELETE ANY ACCOUNT.
Do things works again if you set him back to an Admin account ?
10:22 PM Monday; June 2, 2008

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