I think that would be the easiest approach (delete the account and recreate it from the command line). Hopefully this will give you a setup similar to the original one if you don't want postgres in the login menu. Once you have it in NetInfo, you can set it up like the other invisible users.
I went ahead and deleted the postgres user via the Account Manager and set about creating the account from the command line. A little more involved than I'd expected; I'd forgotten that OS X, while nominally UNIX, doesn't use /etc/passwd and /etc/groups the way most of the BSD's and Linux variants that I've played with do. Had to search the Unix forum at Apple's Discussion board, and found a link to an article at O'Reilly's that included details on how to set up a new user and group from the command line using 'nicl' to manipulate NetInfo (the article was specifically for Oracle, but it had the info I needed). Double checked everything in NetInfo, looked good, so I started up postgreSQL. Seems to be running OK. Now I just need to figure out what I'm going to do w/ it ;)
Thanks,
Monte
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