Mac OS X 10.4 parental controls vs. Microsoft Office 2004

Tonight, I set up Microsoft Office 2004 to run in a Simple Finder configuration under the parental controls of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), but it took a lot longer to get running than it should have. The first application I tried to enable was Microsoft Word. Although the parental controls window clearly showed Word as having been enabled, Word did not appear in the applications window when I logged in as the user in question. After many frustrating attempts to rectify the situation, I finally got lucky. I enabled the full Finder and launched Word, which went through its "first run" ritual for the user in question. Office applications, of course, need to perform this ritual once for each user. After I logged out and back in again, Word appeared in the Simple Finder window. My theory is that the parental controls in Tiger know that this configuration is not capable of supporting the first run of an Office application, and so they quietly hide the app from the user. This is a user-hostile way to handle the issue; I would have preferred to see Word try and fail to perform its first run ritual.