How can I WIPE OUT a previous installation (without erasing entire volume)?

Like many people (apparently) I had severe problems updating to 10.4.4 (from 10.4.3). I was trying to use a laCie D2 firewire drive as the boot volume. No dice, so I finally reinstalled 10.4.3 on a different drive and have had no problems since.
I would like to recover the disk space on the laCie D2 firewire drive that is being wasted by previous bad installs. However, I don't know exactly what files to delete and I figure there are system files hanging around that are not visible to me, etc. Is there some kind of cleanup utility for this sort of situation or should I just erase the entire volume? This would be kind of a pain as I'd have to reinstall a bunch of apps. What's the safest way to go?
I STILL have not been able to find out why installing 10.4.4 on this Firewire drive turned out so flaky. Disk Util reports absolutely no problems on this drive.
G4 Mac OS X (10.0.x) 10.4.4 crashing firewire LaCie

Hi jd:
I have 10.4.4 on my LaCie and it runs beautifully. You can try using Deinstaller. I have never used it and can't vouch for it. You can select everything you don't want on your drive for deletion. Please be careful as you don't want to delete anything you can't afford to lose.
You can use Carbon Copy Cloner to install the OS you want from your internal HDD> Go into Preferences in CCC and click on the checkbox to Make Bootable, Repair Permissions and Synchronize. Then after you have selected your Sources you can edit the list that shows up deleting items you don't want to clone. It will clone everything you want to your LaCie.
If I may suggest, it might be a good idea to run Repair Disk on your LaCie before the above operations.
Post back with questions or comments.
Good luck.
cornelius
Pismo400, 100GB 5400 Toshiba internal, 1 GB RAM; Pismo 500 OS (10.4.4) Mac OS X (10.3.9) Beige G3 OS 8.6

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