Removing old Itunes user

Ok, this should be simple, but I can't seem to find a simple answer. I had my itunes account on my Mac Book Pro, I spilled coffee on it and fried it, so it's going back, in the mean time I took over a new Mac Book Pro from our departed marketing director, and now that I'm using this Mac, I want to clear her off of it and use it for my account, it's basically my Mac at this point. Even when I go on and log in, all her stuff is still there, and none of mine, even my purchased music. I went into my old Mac, was able to start it up and I copied my "Music" folder with all my music to a back up drive, figuring once I get this sorted out I would just log into my Itues account, dig in and replace the music folder with my back up, that should work and I'm not worried about doing that part, but how do I wipe the old user off the Mac?
I have a big party coming up and I need to set a play list up, and want to get this done ASAP.
Do I just delete itunes off the Mac, or is there a better way, this should be something simple, but it seems that when you try to do anything with itunes other than simply buying music, it's always a major undertaking
Thanks
Todd

I believe the easiest thing for you to do will be the create a new OS X user account for yourself, then simply delete the other user account. You will be given the option to keep the existing files or delete them... delete them, as you've said you don't want to keep them. Before doing this, though, you should deauthorize the Mac from the existing iTunes Store account.

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