Parental controls: iTunes library and Front Row

I'm trying to set up parental controls in iTunes on my media centre Mac, which is a PowerMac G4 MDD and so can't run Snow Leopard. I'm using Mac OS X 10.5.8, iTunes 9.2.1 (5) and Front Row 2.1.7 (309).
I'm using a managed account which allows Front Row and iTunes. Within iTunes I have set the parental controls so that only films rated U are allowed. This works for shared content and the iTunes store (as noted in the preferences) but doesn't affect movies in the iTunes library. For example, Alien is rated 15 but still plays in both iTunes and Front Row. Is there any way to restrict this behaviour?
BTW, I've used MetaX to tag movies that I've added to the library myself (i.e. not through the iTunes store) - this works well: other Macs using iTunes see the rating in the shared version and restrict it from being played. However, it can still be played on the host Mac.

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