| Your best bet at this point would be to backup the files that you placed into that Mac (not apps, but documents or any other files that you've created) and reinstall OS X. It might not be Tiger, but at least you have the system discs in order to install Panther (which is plenty good enough....the only major thing you'll be missing is Spotlight and Dashboard, if you can even call those major). Be sure to format the drive that way there is nothing remaining from the previous owner. This should bring your system back to normal.
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