Clean out unwanted Printers and Localizations

After a rather stressful installation of Leopard on my PB 17", and subsequent stressless installations on my family's Mac Mini and iBook 14", I'm now looking to reclaim some of the 5GB or so of free space I lost on each of the disks. I've identified that most of it went to the Library folder. I would really like to know if there is a clean way to uninstall unwanted printer drivers and localizations other than "delete and pray". Any thoughts?

Hello David,
Printers - I just threw the lot away and started afresh. No problem installing the 1 required driver.
Languages - Mac Pilot works a charm.
http://www.koingosw.com/products/macpilot.php
Regards
Ian

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