Migration assistant problem - how to start over

Bought a new iMac to replace an old Power PC running Leopard. Tied to use Migration Assistant last night and in the last minute while transferring time zone settings, it stopped working and said it lost the connection. Checked to make sure everything was still connected, but it wouldn't work and I had to cancel, at which point it stopped responding (I gave up, went to bed, and eight hours later when I woke up it was still trying to cancel). I shut everything off, turned on the new computer, and it appears as though most of the applications did in fact transfer. However, it says that 120 gigs are being used, which isn't possible because the old hard drive was only 60 gigs, and it wasn't full.
I think the easiest thing might be to just start over. I have reformatted in windows before, but have never had to do so on a Mac. This is a stupid question, but how do I erase what I have and start from scratch?

Hi cbbjr
Welcome to the Intel iMac section of the forum.
To start over see > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3910
Also see > http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350
Personally I would only transfer my music, photos and doc's, so that I could start enjoying it and then as Kappy suggest's closely check the compatibility of any other old applications that I had before installing them.

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