Two Apple user accounts, can I delete one?

After using Migration Assistant to move from a G4 tower running Tiger to an Intel tower also running Tiger, I noticed two user accounts, "Apple" and "Apple_". The "Apple" account has a creation date several years old, while the "Apple_" account was created on the date of the migration. The uid's are 501 and 502.
Can I delete the older account?

Assuming "Apple" and "Apple_" are for the convenience of the Software Update feature, I wonder if deleting the account with uid 502, "Apple_" with the most recent create date, would cause trouble. I have run the update since the migration.
How might I determine if there are sensitive files in either account? Nosing around with terminal.app at root level seems unproductive.

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