Easiest way to delete TM backup and start over?

I have one firewire drive serving as TM backup for 3 different computers.
For my G5, I just want to erase it's entire TM backup and start over.
Can I simply delete the MyG5 folder inside of backups completely, empty trash, and start over like that WITHOUT causing any problems for the TM backups of my other computers on the same firewire drive?
Thank you

Think that should work. It worked for me. I had been having all kinds of problems using 1TB TC. My set up was slightly different, but essentially I deleted the backup and started over, here is what I did:
switched off airport and connected via patch cable(ethernet cable, checked connection speed it was 1Gbit/sec.
accessed the disk via finder
located the sparse disk for my computer
selected it, hit cmmd-delete. You get a warning it will be deleted immediately.
Hit ok
once it is deleted, simply set up TM again on your computer.
Kept the wired connection for the first time though.(firewire is better of course)
My deleted back up was 94GB, it took about 3-4 minutes to delete.
It took about 30 mins for the first backup, size was 19GB first time

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