New Owner of Macbook Pro

I just purchased a Macbook Pro from an individual. He set the computer up when he purchased it from Apple and as such, his name is listed in all the system settings. How do I change this to my name and information.
What I've done: I've gone into System Preferences and created a new user account with my name and then deleted his old one. However, this has not taken his name the system settings on anything but the user account.
I don't suppose this is life threatening, I'm just curious as to how to do it.
Thanks!

rwgleaves wrote:
Is it then possible to make copy, make a disk image, something of a program that I have loaded on the my old Macbook? I don't have the install disks anymore.
Will Carbon Copy Cloner do this or Disk Utility?
Thanks for your help!
You could copy the program to another disk, but the problem is that you won't be able to drag over all the preferences and other information.
I recommend you use Migration assistant via firewire to load up all the programs and data from your old MBP to the new one.
And as everyone said, you need those original disks. You'll be toast without them.

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