Correct place for certain files

Hi
An embarrassing question: After just having installed Snow Leopard, I tried to trim the system for unnecessary files. In some cases, I am afraid I was too eager. I rescued the following files from the Trash and would like to re-install them - but I don't know where they belong. Can you please help me? The files are:
1- a folder "Contents", containing a..d:
a/_CodeSignature (folder)/ CodeResources
/CodeResources (alias)
/Info.plist
b- MacOS ƒ/Apple
c- Resources ƒ, containing 5 folders for 5 languages, each containing InfoPlist.strings;
and then 3 files:
english.contractions.plist
english.conversions.plist
english.inputconversions.plist
d- version.plist
2-Gamma Adjust.qtz
3-iLifeSlideshow_103.pkg
Thank you for your help! - Hening.

It's almost impossible to know where they came from since you are the one who deleted them. Unfortunately, you rescued them. Had you left them in the Trash you could have used the Put Back option of the Finder to move them back where they came from, but once removed from the Trash the option is gone.
The various folders and files can come from anywhere as they are similar in many different locations including from within program packages.
It might be easier to erase the hard drive and reinstall SL from scratch. And, in the future don't go removing things you know nothing about or don't know the consequences of removal. Stay away from the System and Library folders. Do not remove, move, or rename anything in those folders. And unless you know what you are doing it's a good idea to say out of the /Home/Library/ folder.

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