"Phantom" accounts on second drive wreaking havoc with the main drive!

I recently bought a new hard drive for my 2006 MacPro, intending to use it as a new startup disk.
Trouble is, the drive it replaced, a 2TB drive has too much info I want to keep to move it out and reformat. So I figured if I deleted all of the old system files I'd be ok.
Since then I've been plagued with problems, mostly permissions changing in the core services folders. There are other minor issues as well, like my apple keyboard function keys not doing what they're supposed to, and if I accidentally hit the eject button in the menu bar I get the beachball of death, with no way to force quit.
I have done everything I could, and a lot of research, and I stumbled upon the answer. In the startup disk utility "Reset password' I noted that the admin account, and user account from the old drive were still being recognized as existing. So basically it's like my computer is having an identity crisis!
I've been searching for a way to get rid of those phantom accounts, and my best lead turned up some apparent glitch in Leopard regarding old accounts. But how to get rid of them?
It would be very difficult for me to safely backup the sheer amount of data on that drive in order to reformat, but I can't seem to find how to rid myself of these accounts. I tried logging in as the root user, but didn't see any tell-tale files on that drive.
It's driving me nuts! I even started studying UNIX in hopes of being able to find a solution in Terminal.
Any suggests?

Actually I had no intention or desire to move the account to the new drive. Two of my drives were on the verge of utterly failing, and I wanted to do an entirely clean installation on the new drive, in case anything on the failing drives could have been corrupted in any way.
Ironically, it's not the original accounts that concern me. I had three drives and in desperation quickly installed osx on the third (2TB) drive (The only reliable one) in the hopes of saving anything from the two drives that were going belly up. At the time we really couldn't afford a new drive and I was hoping I could at least save the data by doing this drastic step.
When it didn't work I bought a new drive, remove the two failing ones leaving me with the new clean drive and the 2TB with the emergency backup install. It's the accounts created by THAT installation that concerns me :/

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