Deleting a user account? or making second account the primary account??

Hi, a few days ago i bought a new 24" imac & used the migration assistant to transfer all my stuff over from my 17" intel imac running 10.4.10.
I did this AFTER i setup the 24"imac with a user account. I was hoping i could make my old account the default account on the new imac. I have set it up so when it logs on it logs into my old imac account, & have gone through & set all the permissions so i can do what ever i want. I have also set the transferred account as an administrative account.
So here is my question - can i delete the original account that was setup on my new 24" & keep the transferred account as the main account?
It doesnt really hurt to have 2 accounts there but i am the only user for this computer & would like to have it alittle simpler...
thanks

is this ok to do? remembering the transferred account came from a imac running 10.4.10 & the new machine is 10.5.4.
will there be any library or system issues?? is it really as straight forward as deleting the account?? Remember the account i want to delete is the account i set up when i booted this computer for the first time...

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