Parental controls out of control

Each time I reopen iTunes the parental controls are set to "clean" for podcasts. This results in some of my podcast updates to be blocked (the dreaded exclamation mark). Opening preferences, selecting "parental controls" and allowing "explicit" podcasts sets the parental controls properly for me (I'm the parent, after all). I authenticate, and the probelm is fixed. Before I dismiss the prefs pane, I click the lock to prevent changes.
The trouble is that the problem reoccurs the next time I open iTunes. The parental controls have reset. How do I tell iTunes that dirty words are OK with me...forever?
[I am administrative user on my mac. Other limited user accounts exist, but are rarely used, i.e. I'm pretty sure they are no factor. I do have sufficient privileges to set parental controls.]
iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   iTunes 7.1.1 (5)

Why do you want to give parental controls to an administrator account? That makes no sense. I suggest you disable administrator access on the account you created, then use an account that has administrator access to establish parental controls on the non-administrator account.

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    - First, the password has to be enter EVERY time I access something restricted. You would say that this is quite normal, however I'd say it's quite a hassle. If I am the adult ready to access restricted content, I have the option to either turn off the parental control temporarily.. with the hassle of having to set the pin again after I am done... or, I have to enter the pin every time. If i access the restricted material now.. it makes sense that I will also be the one accessing the next restricted material in 5 minutes from now. It's a reasonable time-locality principle. Apple TV should be "smart" enough to know that I just entered a pin to access something a minute ago.. thus not needing to ask for the pin again. This smartness doesn't have to be necessarily implicit.. it could be explicit: apple tv can ask me for how long should it remember the entered pin.
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    Solution: instead of visible password.. you can allow the option to click the five buttons left/right/up/down/center in a specific order. How many permutation of 5 buttons can we have? 5! = 12*3*45 = 120, but wait... we can press a button multiple times.. so the total number of codes we can enter is.. whatever you want. e.g. if the codes should have 4 "digits", the number of combinations is 5^4 = 625. Anyway, you get the idea. You should absolutely find a way to replace the visible pin with an invisible one.. using the key combinations is one such solution.
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