Teaching Final Cut Pro and Managing the Computer?

I am teaching FCP to high school students. I have five media classes totaling 110 students. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to manage my macs (I have eight G4's and eight iMac's). I want to be able to manage the computers so that the students won't be able to mess with other students projects.
G4 & iMac   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Lowry.
It's the old officer's club from the Air Force when they shut down that field with a 10 million dollar "upgrade". They kept the dining room and kitchen. We use it as a screening room with an HD projector... All digitally wired ccir 601. $300,000 sound stage even. The grid and grip is all there too. dollys, cranes, the works... very cool place. This Fall semester will produce in excess of 200 short films... 75 edit stations or so there... FCP and Avid in my room. 450? or so students.
We're starting to develop features which could start shooting this next summer!
Jerry

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