Charging Frequency and Username under Places

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Also, When I go into Finder and look under Places - I see four items: Desktop, (My iTunes username), Applications, and Documents. My question is, why is it showing my iTunes username or Apple username for that matter and can that be changed?

The kbase article is the link in my post above (kbase = Apple Knowledge Base).
Simply changing the short name in Advanced Options will change the shortname, but _will not_ change the name of your home folder in the Finder or the name of File Sharing shares. So, it won't accomplish what you want to do. Also, doing so can cause minor issues with preferences and apps that store data or settings based on your short name.
Therefore, follow the suggestions in the linked kbase article - either make a new user with the name you want, copy over the home folder contents, then delete the old one, or follow the steps in the linked article for Mac OS X 10.5. If you choose the latter option, follow the steps carefully and exactly (you can muck things up quite a bit if you are logged in as root).

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