Deleteing a users acct with new home acct?

OK...I gave my gf my 1.33 15", iBook. She had an old 500mhz, graphite iMac. There was so much junk on the iMac I just networked and dragged over the files she wanted to keep. I was afraid syncing the two would put things in weird places and set up weird settings. Just wanted to start a new.
I deleted my user account and added her, however the "Home" icon in finder still has my name. She is listed under users in the HD. Also in the system preferences/accounts, she is listed as the only account, as "Karyls iBook" but my name is still reflected as the "short name". Even unlocking doesn't let me change this name.
How do I set the "Home" icon to reflect her as the user? I'm sure I've screwed something up!
Many Thanks!
Trey

Are you logging on to her account? The "Home" icon always appears on the logged account. I assume you have Fast User Switching turned OFF. When she's the logged admin user the "Home" icon will appear on her user folder. Whatever is there of your old account can be dragged to the Trash and deleted.
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1. First, boot from your Tiger DVD, select your language and click on the Continue button, then select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu, select your boot hard drive, go to the First Aid tab, and click the button for Repair Disk. Repeat this until no trouble is found. Then click on the Repair Permissions button. Then quit DU, return to the installer and shutdown the computer for a couple of minutes.
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2. Next, boot to single user mode by restarting and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND-S keys until a black screen with white type appears.
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/sbin/fsck -yf
mount -uw /
rm /private/var/db/.AppleSetupDone
shutdown -r now
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