Easydiscuss Smart Search Plugin permissions

Hey guys,
I'm using the ED Smart Search plugin and after indexing all users are able to see summaries of posts they do not have access to view in the search results. Is there any way for this to be fixed or just provide me with a small hack to have the plugin ignore some ED categories?

I see in the plugin code there is some lines commented out that look like they have something to do with permissions but I don't really want to mess around trying myself because purging and reindexing my site takes a long time.

		// Map easydiscuss post privacy into joomla access

		// if( empty( $item->private ) )

		// {

		// 	$item->access	= '1';

		// }

		// else

		// {

		// 	$item->access	= '2';

		// }

Any help would be really appreciated because I want to start using the Easysocial search that you just introduced in 1.2.3, but I don't want my users to see posts in the restricted ED categories.

Thanks