Clean Slate Donations?

HI there. I am donating my 4 imacs and ibooks to my son's school, but i need to do a clean slate on the hard drives and bring them back to factory settings. How do I do this? Most are updates to 10.4.8....please advise!
Thanks!

yes, i have the original software, but they are super old, like 10.1 and 10.2. The computers are all up to date with software updates, so to go back that far would be icky. Here's what I have done on my ibook g4, I went to the user/accounts icon on the system preferences, change the name and the password to my kids teacher's and made sure that my network preferences and imac preferences were cleared out too. Then open your hard drive off the desktop and find the Users folder in it. Open Users and rename the house icon making sure the house icon with all your personal info in it is clear if not start the process of deleting the files thru my trash can, the secured way.
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