Safari + Parental Controls Enabled = Problem

Not sure whether to post this in Safari or Snow Leopard. Just wondering if anyone has run into the infamous (for me at least) Parental Controls bug that was present in 10.5 and now it seems it's found a way into 10.6.2. I tried to checkout today at the Apple Store online and also at Wal-Mart to get a black friday deal, neither of the processes would go past the "Check Out Now" button where you would enter your address information. I switched to my Guest user account and magically it worked. Remembering that i could not connect to the iTunes store in 10.5 with parental controls enabled i tried disabling the parental controls for my user and voila! It works. Has anyone else come across this? Nothing big just annoying to have to switch users.
Additional info: I only use it so i won't delete dock icons no internet access is limited and nothing else is set except for cannot change password. I tried it with FireFox (don't use it regularly just downloaded it) and got the same result, would not go past to the checkout.
Thanks!
Richard

K T wrote:
This one?
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=84368
It's a similar problem
The problem in 10.5 was discussed here also:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1512896
It's not a big deal, just a bit frustrating, i do order online a lot.
Since you went to the trouble to ask here, I'd think that not being able to use some of the sites you mentioned would be more important - do you need instructions on how to initiate/replace dock icons?
Haha! No, i've been using Mac OS X long enough i know how it works.

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