Parental Controls forbids Dashboard widgets

On my user, (non-administrator) I turned on parental controls to check them out, then I turned them off a couple minutes later. I opened dashboard soon after, and it alerted me that some of my widgets were prohibited by Parental Controls.
I went to parental controls and turned them off again, and logged into Administrator and saw that they were off. Much to my dismay, I still couldn't use certain widgets that I downloaded. When I downloaded them again and tried to install them, dashboard just closed and nothing happened. When I clicked the dashboard icon again, it opened up fine, but the new widget wasn't there.
What should I do? Are there some prefs I should delete or what?
Thanks!

it's not the dashboard. it's parental controls. something did not get deleted there. make a new admin account log out of your account and log into the new admin one. go to system preferences->accounts, unlock the lock and enable and then disable parental controls on your main account. log back into it and see if the problem is still there.

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