All previously installed applications remain after "fresh" install of OS X 10.8.4

Hey guys,
So this may or may not be a problem. The issue is that I was having some system screen flickering/freezing on my Macbook Pro (Early 2011) so I decided to reinstall 10.8.4 Mountain Lion to see if this would solve the issue. Went through the procedure of creating a reinstall flash drive and proceeded. Chose the drive containing my old OS (10.8.4) and installed. Process took about 1:30 hours to download and install necessary files. When the OS install is complete and the machine boots back up nothing has changed. All previously installed applications remained and the machine home folder is still named for the previous owner? (bought on ebay) Does Apple auto reset all previous settings through my AppleID? Or did this OS re-install not complete correctly? I need to FULLY wipe this machine and after going through the process I am not even sure if anything took place. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
-Andrew

nogdog21 wrote:
I am reading an article suggesting that I can use boot utility to format all drives if I boot into the recovery partition. From there I can reinstall using the internet recovery. Is this a wise move to avoid buying Snow Leopard?
The Early 2011 Mac originally came with 10.6
10.7 and 10.8 are paid upgrades tied to the previous owners AppleID, therefore you can't apply security updates to that previous owners copy as you don't have their AppleID and password.
The object to go back to Snow Leopard 10.6 is so that when you upgrade to 10.8, it's yours and you can upgrade all your paid software and operating system through the AppStore concept.
Later, if you need to erase and install 10.8 fresh, then yes, you use Internet Recovery or RecoveryHD as then your AppleID and password will work as intended and there is no need to use the 10.6 disks any longer, they can be sold if you wish as you don't have 10.6 on the machine anymore.

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