New Pro what to do with Powerbook

First-
How do you know which version of the powerbook you have? I think mine is Ti, but not 100% sure.
Second-
I got a new PRO- wow it's nice- it took awhile before I could muster up giving up the powerbook. So I think i'm going to gulp sell the old one. It's still in good condition, but how do I clear my personal prefrences, passwords, etc? I've never done this before?
Any help would be great!

I tried to do that but it said that the software could not replace newer software to older.
That sounds like the message that is displayed when an attempt is made to install an older OS over a newer one. Did you first try to erase the HD and zero it? Boot from the install disc, at the very first screen, go to the Installer Menu, open Disk Utility, select your HD, click on Erase, click Options, and select Zero All Data.
So I just manually took things off cleared all my libraries, passwords, settings, and made a new amdin account. SO hopefully that will work!!
Certainly it will "work," but as I said before, if you have ever had anything on your HD which you would not want others to have access to . . . whomever ends up with your PB will be able to access much of your data with a relatively inexpensive and easy to use data recovery utility. "Erasing" a file does not really erase the data, it simply deletes the directory information necessary to access files through ordinary means. Data recovery utilities are meant to retrieve data from files which have had their directories damaged or deleted.
Zeroing the HD gets rid of everything, directory and data, and writes zeroes over the entire HD. For the truly paranoid (who don't want to spend the money on putting a new HD in), 8 Way Random Write Format writes random data over the entire HD 8 times . . . I'm not sure anyone could recover anything after that.
Guess it depends on what you've had on your HD and your level of trust.

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