Problem disabling Parental Control

Hi!
I have had problems with Firefox since I installed Leopard, and now I've pinpointed it to Parental Control. On a freshly created account, there is no problem. If I turn on Parental Control (I switched it on, and disabled changes in the Dock and limited the web access) and then change it back (i.e. allowing changes in the Dock and unlimited web access - there is no general overall "disable Parental Control" as far as I can see), some Web sites does not display, I get "411 Length required" error.
I found a bug filed on Firefox (in Bugzilla), but I don't know if the problem is in Firefox (my bet is on Leopard, but that's just a guess).
The same web pages work on Firefox 3 beta.
One (Swedish) example is hemnet.se - enter e.g. "Stockholm" in the "Snabbsök" quick search text box. I get the 411 on that.
Anyway, I've tried deleting lots of preference stuff, listing files before and after the Parental Control thing trying to locate the problem - but I just cannot make it go away.
Any clues on how to kill it?
More on this: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6581473

Hi Everyone. As a relatively new MAC user and the only person to use my MAC, I am the administrator and when I set up my computer, being a 48 year old without children around the house, did not need or wish to have parental controls enabled and wouldn't have checked any restrictions, (The check box in 'Accounts' is unchecked). However, in iTunes, in the parental settings of preferences for the iTunes store, the restrict movies box is ticked & set to 12 and the restrict TV programmes marked caution box is ticked too. I do not wish to be restricted on anything and everytime I try to change them they have reverted back the next time I look??? Why is this please ... and how do I change it, is it a separate setting to the 'Accounts' setting, I am baffled, or have I missed something?
Thank you.

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