Parental Controls, Print out Log

Hello,
I do various mac tech support/advice for several elementary school teachers.
One has asked it I can print out the website use log in the 10.5 Parental Controls for one of her student's accounts. I was wondering if there is a good way print it, short of using the apache2 log files in the Console.
I hope I'm just not missing something obvious.
Thank you
Message was edited by: Jeremy Dorn

I understand all of that. But in my case, it's my kids' accounts. They don't do any "important sfuff" that would be lost if they were force logged out. All they do is use a web browser to play flash-based online games and watch YouTube videos. They often just let their time run out instead of logging out, and their broswers then continue to use up to 90% of CPU and continue to use enormous amounts of internet bandwidth "displaying" the Flash crud, which slows down everything for everyone else who uses the computer.
Firing up Activity Monitor and force logging them out gets tiring. A way to have their accounts force logged out at the end of their time, instead of just being bumped to the login window, would be a godsend.

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<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
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<dict>
<key>BuildVersionStampAsNumber</key>
<integer>19269344</integer>
<key>BuildVersionStampAsString</key>
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<key>SystemVersionStampAsNumber</key>
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<key>SystemVersionStampAsString</key>
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