Internet Connect preferences location

I bought a Intel MacMini for my father-in-law a couple years ago. It's running Tiger 10.4.11 and it has a Apple USB modem. He is on dial-up and always has been. The computer has never connected to the Internet any other way.
A year ago or so he changed his dial-up provider and things have never been the same since. When I open Internet Connect his old ISP logon information was under "Main number" in the pull-down menu. I tried to edit it by selecting "Edit configurations..." but the main number is grayed out and can't be edited. So I added a new configuration for his new ISP and for awhile, that worked fine as long as he remembered to select the right item in the pull-down since you cannot make anything but the Main number the default.
Then recently his ISP forced him to change his password but Internet Connect won't save the change so he has to type it in every time. He's in his 70s and this is all getting too complicated for him so I decided the best thing would be to delete all the settings in Internet Connect and start fresh. The problem is you cannot delete the Main number settings or the account from within Internet Connect.
So, I started looking in the Libraries for any files that might be the prefs for Internet Connect and I trashed all of them. This included all the plist files related to Internet Connect under HD > Library > Preferences and User > Library > Preferences. But I could not get rid of the settings under Main number no matter what.
Anyone know where this information is stored and how I can get rid of it?
Thanks!

See if you have this one...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.internetconnect.<12digi tHexNumber>.plist
Sometimes this holds that type of info also...
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist

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