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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1604711">You can boot from the original install disks and reinstall whatever was originally on the machine. Then go through the upgrade/update cycle with Apple. Be advised, however, that applications you've updated to more modern versions may not run on the older version of OSX, and if those applications changed file formats, the files saved in the new formats may not be readable by the older versions. And for the little twerp, don't let him on your machine in YOUR account. You can set up an account for him, and OSX should isolate anything he does from the machine in general. I wouldn't trust that fully, but it's one step, anyway. One other comment about Tiger/SL. If you have a SL disk, I'd install that, at least. Tiger is no longer supported for security updates from Apple. I don't know the status of SL, but at least it's newer.EDIT: If you go with SL, just boot from THAT install CD and do the nuke/pave with it, you can skip Tiger altogether. Then do the update from Apple to the last version of SL.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1604711"] You can boot from the original install disks and reinstall whatever was originally on the machine. Then go through the upgrade/update cycle with Apple. Be advised, however, that applications you've updated to more modern versions may not run on the older version of OSX, and if those applications changed file formats, the files saved in the new formats may not be readable by the older versions. And for the little twerp, don't let him on your machine in YOUR account. You can set up an account for him, and OSX should isolate anything he does from the machine in general. I wouldn't trust that fully, but it's one step, anyway. One other comment about Tiger/SL. If you have a SL disk, I'd install that, at least. Tiger is no longer supported for security updates from Apple. I don't know the status of SL, but at least it's newer. EDIT: If you go with SL, just boot from THAT install CD and do the nuke/pave with it, you can skip Tiger altogether. Then do the update from Apple to the last version of SL. [/QUOTE]

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