Prepping Leopard Mac for Sale and removing old details

Hi all,
I'm about to sell my Mac Mini with Leopard installed on it, and I want to remove all my details and user accounts from it, preferably in such a way that the Mac is at the same state it was when I bought it - i.e. asking me for my details, etc.
I realise I have the option of doing a wipe and reinstall and switching it off before entering my details, but this has the weakness that none of the apps that came with it will be installed.
As I'm sure most of you will know, Windows has a tool called sysprep which does what I want to do - does anyone know how to do this for OS X? Is it even possible?
Cheers
Chris

The easiest way is to wipe your HD from Disk Utility I would use the 35 pass option which is time consuming. Then Put your OS install disc that came with your computer in and run thru the install process. Once it is complete it it will restart and prompt for details, At this point you are ready to shutdown and ship to the new owner. I have done this with a couple old computers never had an issue.
JJ

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