Parental Controls time limitation problem

Is there anything I could to to force Parental Controls time limitations to work? I've set time limit for my son's account to 1 hour per day, weekends the same, bedtime (school nights 10:00 PM to 7:00 AM and weekend 10 PM to 12 PM). In reality computer doesn't log out my son from his account and he can play endlessly.
I have clean MacOS X Lion setup, no old settings were restored. Update 10.7.2 came out but didn't solve anything. Snow Leopard worked flawlessly. Lion has bunch of problems which I cannot solve and figure out... (still have wifi problems, etc.) But at least if Icould get time limitation to work...
Mac mini 2010 model (2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM).

Yes, the parental controls are enabled, but now.. it works. Thanks anyway for you reply
Regards.
Andrea

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