Preparing a MacBook for a family member.

Guys, I recently brought a 15" MacBook Pro and plan on giving my 13" MacBook to my sister. I was planning on reinstalling the OS on the MacBook prior to giving it to her however a colleague suggested that I do the following:
1) Create a user account for her and make her admin
2) Login under her account and delete my original account
The issue with this is that there doesn't seem to be any formatting involved and forensically my original data could still be recovered in the unfortunate case someone steals her MacBook. What do you guys suggest I do to the machine prior to passing it on to her?
Thanks in advance guys
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Hi:
I just purchased a 15" MacBook Pro and will be giving my MacBook to my sister. It recently had a new hard drive installed and today I picked it up from the Genius Bar after they replaced the Main Logic Board. I want to completely erase the drive and reinstall Snow Leopard so she has a clean slate to work with. What would be your recommendation for achieving this? I do not want any trace of my data left on the MacBook in case it is lost or stolen. The last time I gave my sister my an older MacBook I reinstalled the operating system and wiped the data from the hard drive but there were still traces of my old passwords and I never figured out how to change the computer name from my name to her name.
Thank you for your help.
rudysf

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