Auto filter on a protected sheet

Hi all,
I am running excel for mac 2010 with mountain lion
I have a protected worksheet and need to be able to use auto filter on this sheet with out manually unprotecting the sheet, I have tried checking the allow auto filter box when protecting the sheet, but this does not work at all.
I seem to have exhausted all searches on the web, no vba code I have come across works so far.

I also need to be able to move the auto filter to different rows so that only data below gets filtered

any ideas will be gratefully received, I am sure there is a genius out there that can solve this!!!!
thank you for reading,

Rob