Erase and Reinstall Leopard

Hi everyone,
I purchased my Macbook in June 2009 and it has become a bit sluggish, probably due to all of the crap that I have on there. So I have decided that I would like to do an erase and install of leopard using the discs that came with my laptop. I also have the update for Snow Leopard to do that once I have finished.
I have saved everything on to an external source and am also going to backup using Time Machine. So I now have a few questions that I am hoping people may be able to help me with.
1. When I have finished and am back to Leopard, I do not want to put everything back on to my Macbook. Does Time Machine allow me to pick and choose what goes back on?
2. Do I need to go through all updates again one by one for the different things that I use? For example the iTunes that it will probably start out with will be pretty old. Will the laptop need to install all updates since then or can it just cut out most and update to the most recent one? And the same of each OSX update. I will be going back to Leopard and the Snow Leopard that I have is 10.6.3. Will I need to do all updates in between the Leopard install and the Snow Leopard? And how about Snow Leopard 10.6.3 to current 10.6.6? Will it need to update to 10.6.4 and then 10.6.5 first? Just wanting to check how much data allowance I will need.
Many thanks for your help.
Cheers

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