How do I remove the previous owners name from computer

Hi all.
This is my first post on this forum and my 3rd day in my new (second hand) eMac life. I hope I do not get things wrong.
I was given this eMac, OS X Leopard by a friend who updated to a new Mac and as such there is a lot of references to his name on the computer. We removed as much as we could where his name appeared but there some place we could not.
In particular his name appears under the headings, "Devices": and "Places". Try as I may, when I find the window where changes can be made and I change it, I get an eror message saying words to the effect, "Joe Blow's name can not be removed from the computer as his name is require by the computer", it then defaults back to his name.
In my Windows PC I can change these details but here, I can not seem to be able to do it.
Is this possible and if so, would you please be able to talk me through it remembering that I have been a Windows person for the past 8 years.
Regards

Quoting from the Help:
If you are an administrator for your computer, you can delete user accounts on your computer that are no longer needed.
When you delete a user account, you can choose to save the user's files or delete them.
IMPORTANT: If the user's account is encrypted (FileVault is turned on), turn FileVault off for the user before you delete the account.
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences and click Accounts.
If some settings are dimmed, click the lock icon and type an administrator name and password.
Select the user account you want to delete, then click Delete '-'.
Click OK to save the user's files on the computer, or click Delete Immediately to remove the user account and all the user's files.
If you saved the user's files, they are stored in a disk image in the Deleted Users folder, which is in the Users folder on your Mac OS X disk. To see the saved files, double-click the disk image in the Deleted Users folder. You can drag the disk image to the Trash to delete the files.
Note that you have to create a new admin user account for yourself before you proceed: you cannot delete the only admin account on the computer (which would leave you unable to do anything).

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