Clean Install of Lion. Which Library files do I need to transfer over?

I'm planning to do a clean install of Lion and don't want to use the migration assistant. In other words, I'm copying my Home Folder and will reinstall all of applications and would like to manually transfer relevant files to reduce a lot of the clutter that has built up on my computer over the past months and years.
What home folder library files will be necessary to transfer over? Or, is there a guide online somewhere for this?
Thanks!

Treat your "clean install" as a new machine and take advantage of the Setup Assistant, as described in Pondini's Setup New Mac guide. You can selectively choose users, data, and apps. BTW, any left-over crud can be ignored. My baseline has its roots in Jaguar and I've never wasted time or effort "cleaning" it. Older items just take up some disk space (with eight partitions, I still have almost 500 GB free), but doesn't affect performance.

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