Removing SHARED from the Finder Side Bar

Hi everybody,
We are currently prototyping 10.5 for deployment on our network and we are attempting to restrict access to the finder's sidebar "SHARED" section. We don't want our students to be able to easily access lists of all the computer that are on the network which comprises of both apple and windows pc's.
We have tried to achieve this by using work group manager / managed items on machine based policies but it doesn't do anything, the network administrator also placed the restriction on via the user group but again the SHARED section of the finder sidebar still appears.
Is there a prefs file we need to edit manually, something we can then use with workgroup manager to destribute the prefrences to the end user enviroment.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, since this is the final hurdle to us deploying 10.5 throughout our networking environment.
Thank you
Pan

If you want answers to server kinds of things, I suggest posting to the appropriate server forum (your profile indicates Tiger, yet you're asking about Leopard things). Finally, you might consider checking out the Leopard Server Admin Tools at http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/serveradmintools1055.html

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