Parental Controls causing login to hang

Parental Controls in Leopard - trouble.
I have an iMac G5 (ambient light sensor), 1.8Ghz, 2GB RAM. Previously ran Parental Controls, having one managed account, plus other unmanaged and admin accounts.
I prepared for Leopard upgrade: disabled and stopped all Tiger Parental Controls. Upgraded "in place" to Leopard, applied Parental Controls (all apps allowed, only a whitelist of web sites applied), and BOOM! the managed account gets past login window, but then the beach ball spins,... and spins,..
I took a look at the Console and see that multiple REQUIRED services are terminating with "Permission denied", then bailing and respawning, ad infinitum. Problems are:
ATSServer (Font manager),
pboard (copy & paste manager), and most importantly (I think) is:
UserEventAgent, for allowing system and user events to be handled.
Anyway, infinite loop... the managed user never gets a Desktop. I have gone to 10.5.1, and all other updates. I have disabled File Sharing. I have removed all from the Spotlight list. I have used Disk Utility to Repair File Permissions, a couple of times, actually. All with no effect.
Summary: Turning OFF Parental Controls, the user account gets to the Desktop - all is well; I turn ON Parental Controls and the beachball spins until hard reboot.
Has anybody had it this bad? Why would I think Archive & Install would be any better?
I will paste from the system.log, if it would help. Insight? Observations?

Hi Ben
My brand new iMac had a kernel panic the day after it arrived. I went through a long checking procedure which revealed nothing. Only then did I think to read the panic log, not expecting to see any words that meant much. Lo and behold - Parental Controls clearly cited as the culprit!
Because my kids complained that they could not access loads of sites that they always used to (even with Intego's Content Barrier in use on my older mac) I switched off the 'restrict access to adult sites' option but left the time restrictions on. There has not been a repeat of the kernel panic since, although I didn't realise the connection at the time.
Maybe give that a try, assuming you have had that option switched on when you had the crashes?
At this point, I don't think an A&I is going to help much.
Either way, I'm going to feedback to Apple and maybe it will get fixed in the next update.

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The documentation in iChat help states it is for one Mac User account at a time.
Quote
Using Parental Controls with iChat
If you are using Mac OS X v10.4 or later, and have your computer set up with other, nonadministrator user accounts, you can control who the other users of the computer can chat with. Using Parental Controls you can add only the buddies you want the other user to chat with.
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See also
security.
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The Test account does not have Multiple Logins allowed at present.
More details to follow
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Jan 1 18:32:21 Schmoop-Box-3 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyControls.framework/Resources/logoutHelp er[1638]: CGSCreateLoginSession failed with error 1010
Jan 1 18:32:21 Schmoop-Box-3 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[1639]: Login Window Application Started -- Threaded auth
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Process: SecurityAgent [1647]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/SecurityAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SecurityAgent
Identifier: SecurityAgent
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Code Type: X86 (Native)
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Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x96ef81bb CFNumberGetValue + 43
1 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x0007ed0a AuthorizationPluginCreate + 29087
2 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x0007f4c8 AuthorizationPluginCreate + 31069
3 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x0007fe8b AuthorizationPluginCreate + 33568
4 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x00065b60 0x57000 + 60256
5 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x00063931 0x57000 + 51505
6 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x0006245f 0x57000 + 46175
7 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x00067dc2 0x57000 + 69058
8 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x00077c9f AuthorizationPluginCreate + 308
9 com.apple.securityagent 0x0000d648 0x1000 + 50760
10 com.apple.securityagent 0x00012c40 Security::DataWalkers::Copier<AuthorizationValueVector>::Copier(AuthorizationVa lueVector const*, Security::Allocator&) + 2962
11 com.apple.securityagent 0x000129f3 Security::DataWalkers::Copier<AuthorizationValueVector>::Copier(AuthorizationVa lueVector const*, Security::Allocator&) + 2373
12 com.apple.securityagent 0x0000d18a 0x1000 + 49546
13 com.apple.Foundation 0x91525733 __NSFireMachPort + 99
14 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x96ef0455 __CFMachPortPerform + 117
15 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x96f148e8 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 3896
16 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x96f14cd8 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 88
17 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x930df2c0 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 283
18 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x930df0d9 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 374
19 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x930def4d BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 106
20 com.apple.AppKit 0x942a6d7d _DPSNextEvent + 657
21 com.apple.AppKit 0x942a6630 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 128
22 com.apple.AppKit 0x9429f66b -[NSApplication run] + 795
23 com.apple.securityagent 0x00010fc7 0x1000 + 65479
24 com.apple.securityagent 0x0000202a 0x1000 + 4138
Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x911083ae _semwaitsignal + 10
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x91532399 +[NSThread sleepForTimeInterval:] + 73
2 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x0007ddfd AuthorizationPluginCreate + 25234
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x914eb7ed -[NSThread main] + 45
4 com.apple.Foundation 0x914eb394 _NSThread__main_ + 308
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91132095 pthreadstart + 321
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91131f52 thread_start + 34
Any help appreciated,
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Sadly, this sequence did not solve the problem, though I do have a bit more information.
Firstly; following a reboot, the first forced logout worked correctly, and subsequent ones failed; I believe that this is always the case. That is, it always works the first time after rebooting, and fails thereafter.
With respect to your suggestions: the preference file was loginwindow.plist, not com.apple.loginwindow.plist. I did delete it, and it was re-created; it looks pretty innocuous. Using the Property List Editor to convert it to XML, it looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>BuildVersionStampAsNumber</key>
<integer>19269344</integer>
<key>BuildVersionStampAsString</key>
<string>9G55</string>
<key>SystemVersionStampAsNumber</key>
<integer>168101376</integer>
<key>SystemVersionStampAsString</key>
<string>10.5.6</string>
</dict>
</plist>
Thirdly, running fix perms in Disk Utility did find altered permissions on several likely-looking files; the secure.log was group-readable and shouldn't have been, and several elements of /Library/Application Support/ were not group-readable and were supposed to be. Unfortunately, repairing these permissions did not make the problem go away.
I do have one final clue, though; on the first (successful) forced logout after rebooting, I noticed a launchd message in system.log:
Jan 4 10:21:26 Schmoop-Box-3 com.apple.launchd[198] ([0x0-0x22022].com.yourcompany.starwars[231]): Exited: Killed
That's the successful one, mind you. So I'm wondering whether the first successful exit is taking down some launchd agent that helps with the forced logout process.
Ah, speculation.
Many thanks for your suggestions.
John Clements

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For a while now I've been getting the SBOD irregularly in Safari, since 3.x if I remember right. I've got some time off work at the minute so I'm finally looking into this properly, and here's what I've found:
There seems to be two separate conditions. The first happens on loading some, but not all web pages, causes a lengthy hang in which the entire system (even invoking Dashboard or Spaces) becomes unresponsive. In the console this accompanied by an entry similar to the following:
05/10/2010 08:15:47 /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari[242] ATS AutoActivation: Query timed out. (elapsed 5.0 seconds. params: queryString = {comapple_ats_namepostscript == "Helvetica-Neue" && kMDItemContentTypeTree != com.adobe.postscript-lwfn-font}, valueListAttrs = {<CFArray 0x6f5710 [0xa008dee0]>{type = immutable, count = 1, values = (
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So, any ideas? I'm fresh out.

A workaround for the font-problem seems to be to turn off ATS - it's in FontBook.
The second issue still eludes me.
Things I have tried:
Trashing ~/Library/Safari/
Trashing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari*
Cleaning out every vestigial trace of anything suspect I had on my system (google keystone, logitech control centre, SIMBL, The Spark, iStat Menus, folder actions)
Interestingly, the issue is not present for the guest user, so it IS something wrong with my user account. I just can't figure out what.
Yes, making a brand new account would fix all this, providing I'm meticulous about testing the issue as I move /Users/Old/ into /Users/New/, but I'm kind of loathe to give up. It's surely something really simple!

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