Changing owner's name

I bought a used iMac G5 and would like to change the former owners name to mine. I have set up an Admin account under my name and password, but the original owners name still comes up for example when I go into System Profiler.
Is there any easy way to changed that?
Thank you, Peter
iMac G5 iSight Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Open the Sharing pane of System Preferences and change the computer's name.
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