Bought used G4. Now what?

It seems I bought an iBook G4 with schizophrenic tendencies...
When renaming the home area and creating folders with my own name, they are set back to some kind of default settings where the old owner´s name keeps showing up when I restart. So if the previous owner´s name would be Sam, then "Sam´s G4" would be the (ever returning) name of the computer and "Sam" likewise the name of the home area.
The main problem seems to be simply to rename the computer and re-establish the main default settings. Where do I access these settings?
Probably elementary knowledge in Mac-world. But I´ve just converted myself, so please speak in simple terms. Thank you!
iBook G4 14"   Mac OS X (10.4)  

Hi John,
Unfortunately, the erase-and-reinstall process has come up with several other problems (see my other posts if interested).
So far I´ve just managed to change the Administrator account to my own name, while the computer still has the old name. I´ve also registered the iBook on apple.com. Hope this won´t cause any major problems for me?
The plan is to resolve the reinstalling issues as soon as possible and get a reformatting/hard drive erase. But for now, this´ll do.
iBook G4 14"   Mac OS X (10.4)  

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