Reinstall/Upgrade PowerMac G5

A few months ago I bought an Apple PowerMac G5 from an auction from a company that didn't survived the crisis.
It's a very nice piece of equipment, but I can't make full use of it because it has a admin password that nobody knows...
So I would like to reinstall or upgrade it (I didn't get any cd's with it). The problem is that it has an non-intel processor.
Specs (all from system profiler):
Model: PowerMac7,2
OS:Mac OS X 10.4.11
Processor: PowerPC 970 (2.2)
Memory: 4.5GB
More specs if needed.
So my real question is, how can I reinstall/upgrade my PowerMac, and what OS version can I use (highest). I would like to have a clean (new) mac after the install, because there is still a lot of crap on it from the last owner.
I hope somebody can help me, thanks in advance.
Renzo Noorlander
The netherlands.
Message was edited by: Nonsenz010

You might try the following:
Boot into single-user mode by holding down the cmd-S key combination at power up until you get to the black Unix terminal screen. Once there, type the following three commands:
/sbin/mount -uw / <enter>
rm /private/var/db/.AppleSetupDone <enter>
shutdown -r now <enter>
What should happen after the third command is a reboot into the Welcome interrogation, by which you will set up a new primary account with admin privileges. You will be able to define the password for that account and administer the computer as if it had just had the system installed. Be sure to include the period in the .AppleSetupDone filename.

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