Parental Controls Have Blown Away My iChat

Thinking my teenager was too much involved with chatting when he would do better with homework, I set up an account called homework, which cut out all iChat (no buddies acceptable) and limited his Safari'ing. But, right away -- in our family account -- all the buddies went gray and no chatting was possible, not for my son, not for anyone! And I seem unable to call them back. Turning off parental controls seems unproductive.
Turned on parental controls for one account, lost iChat universally. HOW CAN I GET ICHAT BACK? (Yes, I'd like to keep my Homework account working, but I'll give it up if absolutely necessary)
Mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.4)
Mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Hi Dialoguy,
Do you have your Mac set up that the Family acount is also a Non Admin Account ?
AT THIS STAGE DO NOT DELETE THE HOMEWORK ACCOUNT
Is the AIM or .mac account he signs in with in Homework the same one used in the Family account ?
Would it be even if it worked ? (had some allowed Buddies)
I have seen one occassion when Parental Controls were not to the perosons liking and they deleted the whole Mac USer Account without turning Off Parental Controls which caused them endless problems.
There was a recent Post about the fact that Jabber accounts can not be blocked (and there are AIM Transports out there to get around any AIM name blocks).
EDIT to that info. iChat help says Jabber and Bonjour is disabled at that time.
If the Family account is not the Mac's Admin acount account I would log on as the Admin account and try turning Parental Controls off there.
I would also check that the Family account if a standard one does not show itself to have Parental controls.
The documentation in iChat help states it is for one Mac User account at a time.
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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.
To add buddies to other users' parental controls:
1. Open System Preferences and click Accounts.
2. Select a user account and then click Parental Controls.
3. Select the iChat checkbox and then click Configure.
4. Click the Add button and select a buddy from the list.
5. If there are no buddies in the list, click New Person and enter the buddy's .Mac account or AIM screen name.
Only the buddies you add will be available for chats.
Parental Controls work only with AIM buddies. If you use Parental Controls, local buddies and Jabber buddies will not be available to the user you set up with Parental Controls.
See also
security.
I can replicate this with a test Mac User account using the same iChat name and Fast User Switching.
Closing IChat and restarting does not help.
The Test account does not have Multiple Logins allowed at present.
More details to follow
2:06 PM Friday; February 17, 2006

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