Parental time limits on has a bug that gets stuck at login window

I put time limits on my daughters account, both a bedtime and a maximum number of hours per day. No other parental controls activated. It worked for a while, then developed a bug where once it reaches the "you're out of time" window, logging in just comes up with another login window ad nauseam until I restart and deactivate time limits in system preferences. It does so if I authorize her for another hour and then she logs in, and it also does so even if I simply try to log into my own account, and it even does so after a restart, if I again authorize her for another hour.
Any suggestions? Trash the preferences file? Where exactly is the pfile to trash?

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