i'm giving my older imac to a very deserving person and I want to restore the 
harddrive to get rid of all of my personal information, data, etc.

White soccer-ball base, Power PC G4, 700mhz, current operating system 10.3.9.

Everytime I put the first of the 4 re-store cd's in, turn off the computer and 
re-start it, holding down the "c" key, the computer ejects the cd during the 
start-up process and starts up normally.  Even if I re-insert the cd 
immediately after it's ejected, the same same happens.

Also, I am unable to add a new account to the computer (so that I can make the 
new owner the administrator and delete my account); that option is greyed out 
and there doesn't seem to be any way to activate it.

I've been working on this for the past couple of days and would appreciate any 
suggestions,

Thanks for your help,

 "In most cases there is no free exercise whatever ... of the moral sense." / 
"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see 
who is the strongest."--Henry David Thoreau
"I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity."--Bob Dylan
Everybody got all the money/Everybody got all the beautiful clothes
Everybody got all the flowers/I don't have one single rose
I feel a change comin' on"--Bob Dylan, 2009
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