Parental controls do not stay locked

I am having a problem with the parental controls. I block the store, podcasts, and control the content ratings. Once this is done, I click on the lock to "lock" the changes. No sooner do I quit iTunes and go back in and the parental lock is back "unlocked". I am trying to block my teenager from spending money w/o my permission and from the content ratings I am trying to keep him from. I am the administrator and he is not. He should not be allowed to change these locks, but he can.
This is happening on all three macs we have regardless of platform (a G3, G4, and Intel) with os 10.4.9. (we are all running 7.1.1 of itunes) Is there a way to permanently LOCK these parental controls?
G3, G4, Intel (mac mini) Mac OS X (10.4.9) iTunes 7.1.1

That's a bug in the current version of iTunes that Apple has acknowledged. There's no indication as to when the bug will be fixed, though. You (and anyone else for whom this is a problem) might want to submit a comment to Apple through the iTunes feedback page so that they know it needs to be a priority.

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