Changing Admin User UID on 10.9.3

Hi, I'm having problems change the main Admin User UID on Mavericks 10.9.3 - I've followed the instructions as detailed by Apple here OS X: How to change your account name or home directory name but on this particular iMac I can't complete the step where I rename the user name in Finder from old to new. If i get info on this directory the name is greyed out and can't be modify.
Has anyone seem this, and more importantly has anybody been able to resolve? The mac in question is a 21.5" iMac 2013 with 8Gb Ram and 1Tb HHD. The Filefault was turned on but that has now been turn off.
Thanks
Neil

appreciate your input, but where in that list do you see any of the following items which were changed?
> newgrp, rlogin, rsh, root directories, rcp, login, keychain files ???
with all due respect, maybe someone a bit more knowledgable could weigh in on this?
thanks,
pato

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