SecurityAgent seems to be thrashing when ParentalControls logs out a user with limited access time.

I have a 2007 iMac running OS X Lion, all latest updates and patches applied.
My daughter has an account on the system, which I have limited to only being able to be used for a few hours a day.
The problem arises when she leaves herself logged in, but walks away, and the time runs out.  When I sit down at the console, the first thing that happens is that the cursor disappears, and the systems starts to go into a logout.  Makes sesne so far, I guess.  However, the system then goes into what I can only presume is some sort of loop.  The cube animation starts, and rotates back and forth several times between two screens, both equally hessian wrapped, with no distinguising features.
I can log into the system via ssh, and I can confirm that the system is spiking out on SecurityAgent:
Processes: 661 total, 5 running, 29 stuck, 627 sleeping, 2082 threads                                                     
19:59:08 Load Avg: 1.68, 3.07, 5.24  CPU usage: 43.38% user, 23.52% sys, 33.8% idle  SharedLibs: 3620K resident, 1948K data, 0B linkedit.
MemRegions: 104350 total, 1295M resident, 189M private, 2974M shared.
PhysMem: 1166M wired, 3312M active, 1655M inactive, 6133M used, 9560K free.
VM: 1611G vsize, 1118M framework vsize, 34169473(356) pageins, 5796949(92) pageouts.
Networks: packets: 100372238/47G in, 162918821/146G out.  Disks: 23914908/3252G read, 27697160/2570G written. 
PID    COMMAND      %CPU      TIME     #TH  #WQ  #PORT #MREG RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE  VPRVT  VSIZE  PGRP  PPID  STATE    UID  FAULTS
27013  SecurityAgen 98.0      37:41.27 2/1  1    88    84    508K   3904K  2664K  31M    2410M  27013 1     running  92   3028
28561  top          25.9      02:27.05 1/1  0    32    43    3752K  216K   4176K  20M    2381M  28561 28505 running  0    1924014+
1      launchd      4.6       50:43.63 3    0    3159- 343   2804K+ 2836K  2128K+ 15M+   2405M  1     0     stuck    0    553252+
0      kernel_task  1.5       08:01:03 71/2 0    2     976   14M    0B     595M-  15M    5487M- 0     0     running  0    23008
197    WindowServer 0.7       01:57:50 5    1    6653  6448  22M+   885M   486M+  137M   40G    197   1     sleeping 88   25934192+
18548  Transmission 0.5       01:59:18 7    1    175   372   10M    7352K  16M-   47M    2550M  18548 282   sleeping 501  10297632
14     opendirector 0.4       02:27.27 13   13   617+  108+  6072K+ 1872K  6860K+ 32M+   2417M+ 14    1     stuck    0    407028+
25117  mcxalr       0.2       00:40.33 4/1  3    43    41    200K   252K   1780K  30M    2391M  25117 1     running  54   1580
26441  SecurityAgen 0.2       00:01.55 2    1    121   245   2856K  19M    6820K  35M    2503M  26441 1     stuck    92   27427
28001  ManagedClien 0.1       00:00.11 4    3    98+   86    1196K+ 4900K  3748K+ 31M    2413M  28001 27998 sleeping 0    3718+
294    UserEventAge 0.1       00:20.22 3    1    212   140   976K+  3964K  2632K+ 34M    2422M  294   282   sleeping 501  294201+
28006  ManagedClien 0.0       00:00.11 4    3    97    86    1184K+ 4904K  3700K+ 32M    2414M  28006 28003 sleeping 0    3725+
28573  mdworker     0.0       00:00.41 4/1  2    55    101   8648K  6052K  13M    38M    2422M  28573 28443 running  89   4766+
27831  loginwindow  0.0       00:00.50 4    2    153+  108+  1692K+ 4804K  3252K+ 35M+   2425M+ 27831 197   sleeping 0    4875+
15     configd      0.0       00:33.57 6    1    2316  230   2392K  1788K  3524K+ 27M    2420M  15    1     sleeping 0    320735+
28318  loginwindow  0.0       00:00.54 3    1    151   101   924K+  4712K  3120K+ 33M+   2423M  28318 197   sleeping 0    4778+
Now, obviously, because I can ssh in, I can start a clean shutdown and restart, but I'd like a way to do this that doesn't involve me bringing down the system, when the whole point of multiple users and parental controls is that a system can be shared cleanly.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Will

See if this blog post that our support team created helps you with the connection information. This can create the desktop Access application linked up to the Access 2013 web app tables you have.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/the_microsoft_access_support_team_blog/archive/2014/03/24/how-to-make-external-connections-to-an-access-web-app-new.aspx
Also, you might just try clicking the Create Reports button in the Access web app client interface and Access will create the reporting database for you with links to the web app tables. On the File menu (when using the Access web app in client) make sure
to click the option to Allow Any Location under the Manage button. After that, just click the Create Reports button on the File menu (right above the Manage button) and wait a few seconds. Access will create a new desktop database linked up to all of the Access
web app tables. You can then create as many reports or other desktop objects as you like.
Hope that helps,
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