Help.   New Mac Mini, migration, networking

Hi All,
I had a 2009 Mac Mini that was networked over wifi with my three other computers.  I just purchased a new 2011 Mac Mini to replace it.
I hooked the new mac mini up to a TV and it said it could not run setup assistant while connected to this TV so it automatically created a user called "administrator". 
I then took it to the Genius bar.   I wanted to get this user called "administrator" deleted and to migrate my own user (called MacMiniAnna).   They did migrate my user information using migration assistant and they did delete the user called administrator however...
When I try to network to the new Mac Mini it is still called "administrator's Mac Mini"   I want it to be named "Anna's Mac Mini"
And even though I went to the Mac Mini and turn file sharing ON for my entire home folder and said that everyone could read and write, I am not able to network to this computer from the other computers. 
You can see what the problem looks like here:
http://kuperberg.com/clients/NetworkProblem.png

I feel that I can fix this whole thing if I can get the mac mini back to the state it was when I opened the box.   And then start all over, migrate my old data without creating this "administrator" account first.     Does anyone know how to just get the Mac Mini back to the original out of the box state?

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