Change Apple ID Used During MacBook Set Up

Hi - I set up a MacBook for myself and want to give it to my wife. I set it up using my Apple ID. When my wife opens up iChat, e.g., the application thinks it's me. How can I change the Apple ID associated with the MacBook to her Apple ID ... without doing a complete system restore and restart?

Thanks. So, as it turns out, all along, I think, the "View as Name" in the buddy list is me, but the "View as Handle" is my wife, and the client is logged into her account, so we are all set. The "Name" field must just pull that name data from some field created during the log-on process. A little annoying for those of us (like) with technology OCD but my wife could care less. The mail application also seems to pre-populate its fields from the log-on process data I provided, but it too can be easily over-written. False alarm, it seems.

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