New HDD, asking for pw, no option boot

Hi all,
I'm trying to ready my 17" Core Duo iMac, 2006 model for sale. Along the way, Apple geniuses helped me diagnose a failed HDD, so I bought a new one, and replaced it yesterday. When I log in, it all looks great, until I get to a login window asking for a Name and Password! Under Mac OS X logo, the fine print says "freelance6osx" if that's any clue for anyone.
Now the plot thickens. I can put in various install disks, the one that came with the machine (10.4), and one that came with my newer machine (10.6), and hold down any number of keys, and the best I can get with either the C key or option key held during boot is a very brief flash of a ? folder before it happily goes on to boot from the new hdd and whatever "account" is there on it. (there are sometimes more, sometimes less, encouraging whirrrrs of the CD in the drive) No single user boot, no safe boot, no resetting PRAM is possible, try as I might. I am always sent back to the login in window, and obviously have no clue about either user name or pw. I'm royally stuck!!
Any ideas?

Here's the solution: I had to use my Snow Leopard (purchased) install disk. The disks that came with this machine were for an older OS, and the one that was for another machine, while it was Snow Leopard, also was incompatible. But the SL install disk allowed me to boot from the disk, and I'm on my way.

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