Removing Private Browsing, Clear Cache, etc. options from Safari

Question

This was discussed earlier, but the situation just came back up here at school as students have been found clearing history etc. to cover their tracks. This was originally posted by Yang in May 2006.
"If you have the developer tools installed, or more specifically, Interface Builder, you can easily remove the 'Private Browsing' and 'Reset Safari' menu-items. Create a copy of Safari and browse to '/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/'. Open MainMenu.nib in Interface Builder. In the template of the menu bar which appears, browse to and highlight each menu-item and hit backspace to delete. Save and quit. That Safari application package will now be missing the menu-items.
You can replace the original Safari package with the modified one, and maybe have the unmodified version in the 'Applications' folder of an administrator's home folder.
Unfortunately, the 'Clear History' menu item seems to be generated dynamically. I can't seem to find the reference to it in Safari's resources. However, that said, I believe there are more elegant solutions to tracking a user's browsing history. In fact, it might be advisable to look at third-party solutions - ones which write history to a separate file. For instance, even if the menu-items are missing, it is possible to simply trash the relevant .plist after each browsing session to remove all traces of its history."
In doing that, I found that while you can't remove the dynamically created "Clear History" from the History Menu, you can open "/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings" with Project Builder from the Developers Tools and edit what shows in the menu. Just change what is after the = sign for the items you want to change and save it. It may not stop the practice completely, but it will slow things down. (Students may think twice before selecting a menu option that says "Permanently Archive History".) This doesn't change the function, just what it is called on the screen. I also removed "Empty Cache..." from the menu and changed the label and icon for History when you "View All Bookmarks" to reduce deleting them through that method. It makes them harder to find.
Just be sure you are modifying a copy of the App so you keep the original. I then used Remote Desktop to copy the modified application into the Applications folder on the student computers. So far, only limited testing, but everything seems to work at this point.
By the way, this was my first experience with Developers Tools and they really aren't that daunting if you think things through first.

Answer 1

Seems I'm out of touch with school day issues.
It appears you would rather snoop on behavior and punish Web "wrongdoers" than let students imagination and a few "rules" guide their Web experiences.
If a child is smart enough to know how to "cover their tracks" then they've learned something wrong from your instructors.
You may just want to take away their browsers and replace them with:
http://www.makienterprise.com/kggg/kidsgogogo.html
You also mention Apple Remote Desktop in your post. It allows you to view what any machine is doing.
Instructor is not at a machine taking a "peak" over the students shoulder? Worked when I was in school.