Can You Use Migration Assistant to Just Get Files and NOT the Username?

Im wondering this because i don't want to tamper with renaming the home folder and losing permissions. So I'm wondering if I can re-install Leopard on my MacBook and then use migration assistant to import all my files from time machine? Or do i just reinstall leopard and go into time machine after its done and just hit restore.
In the end i wanna take my files from my MacBook to my iMac without having to carry the username over, is this possible? If not then i need to freshly install leopard on my MacBook so its identical to the iMac. so they are both identical.

it's possible but if all you want to do is change username I HIGHLY recommend you follow these instructions:
http://www.macworld.com/article/132693/2008/03/changeshortusername.html
reinstalling leopard is completely unnecessary for this. Alternatively, you can create a new user on the current install with the name you want. then migrate all your user data from the current user to the new one. when done, delete the old user. see this link on instructions about what to move besides you own files
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6185507

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