Can I erase all prior network settings and start from scratch?

I have an imac i3- I had transferred everything from my imac core 2 duo onto (including settings) whenever I got a new computer i transferred everything including settings.
I have been having problems with internet access- pages stall, it will often take a few minutes for a page to fully load, if I open a second window- both windows stall. This occurs with safari or firefox.
I have time warner wideband.
Time warner has been out twice, changed modems- checked all lines- they even connect their laptop (windows) and the pages load very fast, multiple windows- no problems- the internet is actually faster on my ipad connected wirelessly.
After going to the genius bar- they did a hardware test- everything is ok, they went in and found many settings imported from as far back as 2003. they deleted the old "locations" settings in the network preferences and this improved things right away at the store- they recommended a full system restore without restoring the system settings if the problem wasn't completely fixed.
The question I have- is there a way to do this without backing everything up, re-installing osx and then recovering my backed up files? can I delete all the network settings alone somehow?
Thanks

Hi
Are you looking in the /Users/Home/Library/Preferences folder by any chance? The home folder is the one with the house icon. If you are then you're looking in the wrong folder. Double-click your hard drive icon and you should see a list of folders. If you view by list or column you should see the top level Library folder below the Applications folder. This is where you should be looking.
Tony

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