Home directory is named as my AppleID, not a short version of account name

Hi
I have just taken my new iMac out of the box, fired it up and gone through the 3 or 4 screens to set it up for the first time. For some reason it has created my user account as "firstname lastname" (as expected), but my home folder has been given the name of my AppleID - I was expecting it to be called "firstname".
Why has this happened, and what can I do. I don't really want my home folder short name to be my AppleID.
One of the first thing i was asked for in the setup process was to enter my AppleID and password, which I did. A load of my details were then automatically downloaded from the internet to populate the rest of my initial setup process. I was never asked to name my home folder and certainly did not enter my AppleID anywhere in the setup process other than when it asked for it at the start.
As I have not done anything else at all on my new iMac yet, I thought that maybe I should reinstall OSX from the disc supplied so I can go through the setup process again to really make sure I did not enter my AppleID in the wrong place (even though I know I did not first time). So I popped in the disk and let it reinstall for a few hours. This it did, but once I had reconnected my wireless mouse at the start of the setup process again, it did not take me through the setup process like it did the forst time, but just took me straight to my desktop, and my home folder is still called my AppleID...
Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks

Perform an Archive & Install without saving user and network data or an Erase & Install. In the first case, delete the Previous Systems folder from the top level of the drive afterwards.
Thanks Niel
Sorry to be slow, but how do I force an "Erase & Install"
When I reloaded the OS from the DVD yesterday, I did not see an option to do that. It just gave me the option to "install" - and that clearly did not erase & install, as after the new install iLife was still there as was my home folder name problem....

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