Can't Get Rid of Windows XP

So I have this white macbook running only windows xp. There is no os x on this hard drive. No boot camp and no parallels. Solely runs on xp. I have the original recovery discs for os x tiger and i cant figure out how to get rid of windows and go back to running os x. Can anyone help shed some light please...

Insert the OS X disk. Reboot the Mac, holding down the Option key. You should see the boot panel, with the option to boot from the install disk. Do so by clicking the arrow under the disk image.
When booted into the CD, click through the first (language select) screen. Go to the Utilities menu, and choose Disk Utility. Using the Partition tab, repartition the hard drive to 1 partition, Mac OS Extended format. Close DIsk Utility and proceed through the installation on the new partition you've just created.
Good luck!
Matt

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