Cleaning up Tiger

Hey all,
so far I have been "uninstalling" software by deleting it from the applications folder and searching for the relating com.-files to also delete them.
By chance I found out that some software leaves hidden files behind that cannot be found with spotlight. And furthermore what about files that only belong to a certain software but don't contain the name of that sofware?
So I'm asking myself is there a way to clean up all these unused files that have problably accumulated under Tigers surface over the years?
I already tried to use AppDelete to clean unused sofware more thoroughly from now on, but AppDelete does not really work well. Sometimes Software is moved to the trash but afterwards shows up in the Applications folder again, com-files aren't touched at all.
Thanks for ideas.

Hi MGW,
unfortunately Spotlight does not search /Library, /System and all the other invisible folders in the root directory. I use FileBuddy to really find things.
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===== Friday, March 3, 2006 10:42:44 AM US/Eastern =====
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*********Motion.crash.log*******
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Report Version: 4
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Thread: Unknown
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found that the folder in the error log called "A" was actually named "B" on the system. changed name of folder to "A" and got farther in launching, app intro window appeared, and then program quickly crashed again.....
Host Name: Video
Date/Time: 2006-03-03 13:10:20.351 -0500
OS Version: 10.4.5 (Build 8H14)
Report Version: 4
Command: Motion
Path: /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/MacOS/Motion
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