How to change "home" on mac

Hey everyone, I just got a new laptop, well it was actually my brothers but now its mine, i deleted his files, changed the user so im the computer administrator and its all good, but theres jsut one little problem. when you open finder, on the left, you see some things; desktop, documents, movies, pictures, maccintosh hd etc etc, well, theres a little icon there which is your home apparently it has your username and a little icon of a house next to it, but it still has my brothers user name, and when get its info in order to change the name, when i want to unlock it to make changes, it asks for my brothers password. How can i make all of this disappear??
thank you

changing the name of the home directory and the login name is not advisable. it can be done
http://www.macworld.com/article/132693/2008/03/changeshortusername.html
but a better way would be to make a new user account using system preferences->accounts. call it whatever you want. log into that and delete the old account. since you just got this computer you don't have any data on it yet, right?

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