If you don’t want to reformat your drive and start from scratch, you could remove your user account completely (though I’d recommend you created a new “demo” account first so that the system has something) but at a minimum I would recommend you delete everything in the /Library/Preferences and /Users/ accountname /Library/Preferences directories.
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If you really want to scrub your computer clean and keep this software on then you should seriously consider reformatting the disk, reinstalling Leopard or whatever other version of Mac OS X you have available, installing all the system updates through the Mac Software Update utility (accessible from the Apple menu), and then reinstalling whatever you want to include with the system.
I haven’t done the research on a Aluminum Powerbook (though I do own one, as it happens) but I think you’re going to find that there’s only a minimal incremental value to the unit in the marketplace, if any. One way to find out is to actually do some research on an auction site like eBay: search completed auctions to see winning bid prices for similar hardware, then read through the descriptions to see if they included lots of expensive software or not. That’s the thing of it too: I don’t think that you’re going to be able to sell your Powerbook for much more because of the software included on the unit versus what you’d see if you just scrubbed it clean and sold it “as is” but had unauthorized and deleted the licensed software applications. And that would really stink if you got an additional $20 for including the software just to find you need to drop another $700 to replace it!
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Does that make sense? Heck, with some software, it’s savvy enough that you won’t even be able to install the second copy of the software if the first hasn’t been deauthorized or unlicensed. I have to start by pointing out that what you’re proposing isn’t uncommon but is actually illegal: if you have a single user license for Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite 2, etc., then you either sell the license to the software with the computer, or you need to delete the software from the computer so that you have the license available for your new system.