Deleting additional user accounts from MacBook Pro

I am trying to delete added accounts on my mac. I do not have an 'account' or a 'users & groups' icon in my system preference. I think I am missing something. I do not know how they were added. TY

Yup, you're missing a couple other items there as well. Have you run some kind of "cleaning" utility or something like that recently, or otherwise tampered with the system?
In any case, though, Apple support is correct, you need to reinstall the system, which means you'll need to know where your discs are. It's possible the Apple Store will be willing to reinstall the system for you, but I believe they'll charge you for that, and you'll still have no disc, which you really need to have. If your machine shipped with 10.6, you can get new copies of the gray discs that shipped with the machine from Apple for a small shipping & handling fee. If it shipped with an earlier system, you can get a new 10.6 disc from Apple:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard

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3   Foundation                          0x00007fff8ed783b9 -[NSKeyedPortCoder decodeInvocation] + 106
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