New Second Hand Intel iMac?!?

Hi All
My Dad has just bought a second hand 17in Intel Core2Duo iMac with the following spec:
http://support.apple.com/specs/imac/iMacLate2006.html
He has asked me to do a clean install of Leopard and install MS Office and iLife, for all of which I have copies and licences.
I just wondered if there were any specific hardware resets, disk formats, or anything else that I should do to ensure the machine is set back to factory defaults and all the previous user's data are removed before doing a fresh install?
Thanks in adcance for your advice!

Mac OS X doesn't have a clean install option as it were.
Ask him which option he wanted:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607614
My FAQ* here explains the typical procedure of selling a Mac:
http://www.macmaps.com/selling.html
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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