Sky Movies lock out regardless of parental control set up

I can appreciate parental controls when you have a child and you want to limit their viewing of certain movies. However, seeing as it is just my wife and I in our house, I have deactivated the parental controls because we have no use for them, which is great cause I can download movies on demand without the need to enter the four digit pin every time. To my surprise though, even with parental controls switched off, if I go to the live showing of the movie on the sky movie channels, I have to enter my pin every time I change channels. I've been told this is a legal thing from Ofcom and that's fair enough... but what surprises me more is, while you lock the sky movie channels, you can still access babestation and the rest of the "dating and chat lines" including, "Grannies on the pull" without any need to enter your pin and this is on a Saturday at 1 oclock in the afternoon. So if I had a kid, what would I rather him accidently coming across... a movie such as Die Hard which is complete fiction or a scantilly clad woman advertizing her "services" I think I know what I would rather have.

Sometimes "Parental Controls" can be subject to glitches, so just to clarify, are you saying that while logged in to the "admin" account and selecting that user in "System Preferences" > "Accounts" you are unable to use "Parental Controls" > "Finder.app & System" > "Applications" to select "Safari.app", or that you are selecting it but the alias is not appearing in the user's "My Applications" folder? This is a fairly common problem with non-Apple apps and "Classic" apps, but I don't think it happens very often with OS X Apple apps...
As a workaround, you can add your own alias by logging in to the "simplified" account, switching to "Full Finder" and opening two "Finder" windows - one showing "/Applications" and the other showing the user's "~/Library/Managed Items/My Applications" folder. Drag "Safari.app" to the "My Applications" folder while holding down the "command" (⌘) and "option" (⌥) keys (dragging with these modifiers causes an "alias" to be created at the destination, provided that the destination is "writable" by the user performing the operation). However, due to the way "Simple Finder" works, it will be necessary to "lock" the alias file using "Get Info", or else the alias will be deleted during the next login.
Also, note that unlike a "Some Limits" account, "Simple Finder" does not restrict application use so removing "Firefox" from "My Applications" will only make it inconvenient to use. Other means will be necessary to actually prevent its use, for example something "permissions" based like changing it's permissions or moving it somewhere to which the user doesn't have access. But it should also be noted that the restrictions on site access placed on Safari don't work very well in any case so they could just download a new copy...

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Hi! Did you ever receive any feedback on this issue?
I am interested since I have noticed the exact same frustration with Parental Controls since updating to 10.5.
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I have also turned off any parental controls regarding web browsing but my children still hit many sites that are blocked by Parental Controls. I do have a linux gateway that does the filtering quicker and better.
If anyone at Apple is listening ... please spend some time to fix this for the next update.
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