AD/OD Parental Controls Issue

[JGroves]

We’ve been trying to get serverwide Parental Controls to work on our Macs for the past 3 weeks. It isn’t working on network accounts; whenever we use a browser on a Mac network account, the webserverproxyd process goes nuts, using 50-90% of the CPU and refusing to show any webpages. It looks like it’s constantly making calls for a piece of info it isn’t getting. The webserverproxyd sample returned code like about findUserByID and NSExceptions, looped over & over.

We believe it’s a problem with AD’s schema. Our school district uses a magic triangle setup. Mostly Macs with a few computers, going through a Windows 2008 server with Active Directory. Our 3 Mac servers with Open Directory are connected to it. Two have OSX 10.6.6, the other has OSX 10.5.8. The previous administrator, who left ~6 months ago, says Parental Controls worked for him. He also implies he didn’t have to change anything with Active Directory’s schema.

I am currently trying to, but when I try to load up our Mac server’s Open Directory schema, I get this error:
Error loading schema: An invalid dn syntax has been specified.

I’m using the AD DS/LDS Schema Analyzer on our Win2008 server, following the instructions given in Apple’s Active Directory Schema white paper (pg. 6, Steps 5 & 6; I would post the link, but the site regards it as spam). At this point, I’m at a loss what to do next.

I have 2 questions:

1. Can anyone confirm/deny we’re following the right lead to get server Parental Controls working (from Workgroup Manager)?
2. If so, how should I figure out what’s wrong with the Schema Analyzing and (hopefully) fix it?

[JGroves]

Error code we’re getting from webserverproxyd:

+[User findUserByID:searchParent:]
+[User(UserPrivate) _userWithInfo:attributes:]
-[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]
_[NSException raise:format:arguments:]
object_getIvar
__gxx_exception_cleanup(_Unwind_Reason_Code, _Unwind_Exception*)
__cxxabiv1::__unexpected(void (*)())
__cxxabiv1::__terminate(void (*)())
_objc_terminate
__tcf_0
abort_report_np
__abort

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