Logging-in doesn't create new login keychain

I'm helping someone with 10.5.1.
We had to reset their account password (they forgot it), but now their "login" keychain password doesn't match, and they don't remember it. They don't mind too much if they must lose their old "login" keychain (there's not much in there).
So I started Keychain Access, selected the login keychain, and chose File:Delete Keychain "login". I deleted "references only", because maybe they'll remember the password later, and there might be things in there they'd like to recover. Now, from reading
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301364
it sounds like if they reboot and login again, it's supposed to make a new, clean "login" keychain, but it doesn't. In fact, it finds the old "login" keychain all over again and it shows up again in Keychain Access.
Is this a bug in 10.5.1? Am I supposed to do File:New Keychain and make my own keychain named "login"? Am I supposed to use Preferences:Reset My Keychain? Is there an Apple article that covers how to recover from a lost "login" keychain password? That article I read appears to be incomplete.

..."it sounds like if they reboot and login again, it's supposed to make a new, clean "login" keychain, but it doesn't."...
The "help" document referred to in the article you linked (which happens to be a 10.4 help document) suggests:
..."If your keychain has become inaccessible for some reason (for example, if you've forgotten the password), you can delete it and manually create a new keychain."...
Note the word "manually", which implies that rebooting and logging in won't automatically result in the creation of a new keychain. The wording of the 10.5 is slightly different, with the absence of the word "manually". However, the wording still suggests that you have to create the keychain yourself:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/9078.html
..."If your keychain has become inaccessible for some reason (for example, if you’ve forgotten the password), you can delete it and create a new keychain."...
I suspect that in 10.5, you do still have to create a new keychain manually ("File" > "New Keychain" and naming it whatever you like), select it in the sidebar list of keychains, then make it the default keychain ("File" > "Make Keychain "xyz" Default").

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