A quickie, but a goodie.

I just gifted my last-but-one generation iMac to my cousin (or nephew. It's confusing), and needed to set him up with iWork before wiping the system down for him to set up. Here's how to do this:

1) Once Leopard is installed, set up a temporary admin account so you can configure the system. I call mine "test". It's catchy.

2) Once you're finished configuring, restart the computer in single user mode (hold down Command-S).

3) Mount the filesystem by typing "/mount -uw /"

4) Delete the User folder with "rm -R /Users/test/"

5) Clean out the Library with "rm -R /Library/Preferences/"

6) Remove all traces of the user from the Directory Service with "rm /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/test.plist"

7) Finish up by resetting the setup assistant by putting in "rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone"

Took a few minutes to figure out the syntax for step 6, but otherwise, worked nicely!