I figured the best way to have "admin" access and "kid" access without messing up the pointers etc.
1. On the media drive I have a directory f:\Media
2. I created a Share on the root of f:\ called Data that allows files to be changed over the network.
3. I created a 2nd share on f:\Media that does NOT allow files to be changed over the network.
4. For Admin Access I map M: to f:\Data
This points to the Root of f: so I do the following:
Net Use m: \\mediapc\data\Media
(which ends up pointing directly to the media directory with full access)
5. For "Safe or Kid" access I Map M: to f:\Media instead of the root so I do:
net Use M: \\mediapc\media (which is the restricted sharename)
(this ends up pointing to the Media directory via the restricted share not the data root share which has full accces).
6. MC will see it the same way as both pointers are to M: the only thing that changes is to be able to (or not) to change files on the directories in M:
7. I do this from all pcs even the one that has the actual drive, to avoid any confusion. So even on that PC although the data is on f: doing the net appropriate net use command for M: works, and makes it consistent.
Hope this helps others in the same boat.
Now I have to figure out how to deal with Thumbnails so they don't get recreated too often, I saw a good post somewhere about this, now I just have to understand that and try it out.