Parental control for iPod Touch

Software update 3.0 is coming with Parental Controls this week.
$10

Right now, you can go to Settings -> General -> Restrictions to enable restrictions as shown:



When you update to OS 3.0 after Wednesday, you will have more sophisticated parental controls to decide what music, videos, and apps your kids can access on iPod touch.

I just updated to 3.0 specifically for the parental controls. The summary in itunes and on the Apple website says that I can decide which apps my kids can access. As far as I can determine, this is completely false. I can decide what age rating for apps the kids can access, I have yet to find any way to set that rating myself. So they have access to apps that I don't want them to touch and they has no access to apps I want them using.

I wanted to be able to set each app individually, and what I really wanted was to password protect certain apps so that I would have access and the kids wouldn't. I expected parental controls to protect my kids when they use my ipod, not to set up an ipod for the kids to own. There are ratings for 4+ - who buys their 4 year old and iphone?

There should have been a lot more detail given on the update page. I just threw away $10 for an upgrade that did nothing for me

Well, seems you should have researched this better before buying.
The info is on the site.
How about asking a question since it's been released to see if it met your needs before?
Think about it.

Here is what page 115 of the 3.0 Users Guide says:

Set content restrictions: Tap Ratings For, then select a country from the list. You can then set restrictions using that country’s ratings system for the following categories of content:
Music & Podcasts
Movies
TV Shows
Apps
In the United States for example, to allow only movies rated PG or below, tap Movies, then select PG from the list.
Note: Not all countries have rating systems.

You can find simple step-by-step instructions to setup OS 3.0 parental controls in these articles.

http://www.ehow.com/how5158759setup-controls-iphone-ipod-touch.html
http://knol.google.com/k/suren-ramasubbu/how-to-setup-parental-controls-on/2hrtm vjs09ng1/3#
http://www.ehow.com/how5107679set-controls-iphone-app-store.html

In addition to what Apple offers to protect static content, third party application developers have developed kid-safe browsers that can be used in lieu of Safari Mobile to protect against unsafe Internet content.

http://www.mobicip.com/online_safety/iphone
http://www.internetsafety.com/safe-eyes-mobile-iphone.php