REMOVING ADMINISTRATOR FROM iMac G4 Flat Screen

I have a new MacBook Pro and have given my iMac G4 Flatscreen to my wife for her personal use. I was the Original Administrator on the machine and she was a user. She is now also an Administrator and I wan't to delete all reference to my account and leave her as the only Administrator and with a clean hardrive without all my stuff clogging it up. How do I do that?

Log in from an administrator account other than the one you want to delete, and then use the Accounts pane of System Preferences to delete the unwanted account. Next, open the Users folder on the hard disk and look for a folder named Deleted Users; if you find it, delete everything inside which relates to the old account.
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