Clean up old account - deleting not enough...

I have 2 admin accounts on a Powerbook G4. One account "Sally", upon login, will go to the blue desktop screen then hang or return to the login screen. The other login "Todd" works fine. I ran Disk Utility and Disk Warrior with no positive results. I said heck with it and deleted the "Sally" account. I created a new account using the same account name "Sally" and I still can't login (just goes to blue screen). I created another account "test" and it works fine.
What information still exists, after I delete her account, that is corrupting the new account? And how do I clean it up?
I don't want to simply create a new account for her with a different name.

When you create an new account, and delete the new account later with the Systempreference Accounts, specific files, such as caches, temporary files etc., which are created under this account will not removed. They are remains of the deleted user id and still exist in the Librarys.
For the complete removal of the files, you must find the files with the user id. Normal 502, if this is the second created account.
Open your Terminal and use
sudo find / -user 502
to find the files for the second user.
Use:sudo find / -user 502 -delete
to delete the files
Be sure, that is not your id. Your id should been 501.
Check it before with id 501 or id name

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