I agree, a complete reinstall makes the most sense. The problem is that the setup disks were lost in the fire that the computer somehow escaped with only a bit of soot covering it. It looks like it's time to get new disks...
My girlfriend just purchased a 1 year old Mac with OS X 10.5.2. Incredible as this seems, the previous owner mistakenly left all of her old information on the computer! We would like to delete this, but have been unable to contact her and get her password. Is there another way we can...