Parental Controls turns on automatically?

Hi have a strange problem where I see my mobile users (who have administrative rights on the mac) login to their mac book day after day without any problems. Then, without good cause, the parental control flag gets checked automatically and then they can no longer login using their account. I have to login as a local administrator, uncheck the parental controls flag on their mobile account, and then have them login again. Often, I am not around to do this for them as they are mobile. Can someone explain how this could happen or give me a method for disabling parental controls permanently so it will stop interfering with my network users?

I also have this problem, though it with local admin accounts on several differnt computers. All running osx 10.6.6 or later. All are bound to AD 2008 server, for printing and file sharing. Accounts that are having the problems are local accounts.
If I turn off the parental control, it stays off, untill that user logs out, when it gets turned back on...
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