How can I delete old & inactive user account datawith a script?

there is a mac 10.4 server that has many old user folders. too many to delete one by one. there is no grouping of users. all of them are in the /user folder
I want a script that will check the folders in the /user direcotry against the OD users. If a user for that folder does not exist then it will rm or move to trash or an /inactive users or /olduser folder.
thanks for any help
it is the same question in this thread but was not answered really well at all
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1081185&tstart=0

Well, the problem with rm the folder is that it still leaves data hanging around (profile, home drive, etc.) I was really hoping for something that would sweep up everything from people that are no longer in the OpenDirectory database.
Anyway, I'll close this question by saying thanks for trying.
Later...
Richard

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