How do I reinstall EVERYTHING after a hard drive wipe and upgrade to Lion?

In preparing for the iCloud migration, my iMac had problems and I had to have my hard drive wiped clean and Lion installed.
How do I easily get all my old stuff (iTunes and music library, iPhoto and photo library, iMovie, applications such as CS3, QuarkXPress, etc.) back on to my iMac?
Do I have to put it all back on "by hand"? Meaning installing each program separately?
What about my music and photos... reinstall from my stacks of backup disks?
I read somewhere that I can find iPhoto, iTunes and iMovie (all the programs that came with Tiger but apparently do not come with Lion) on my (install disks?) Is it possible and easy to select just those programs to install?

I haven't tried plugging it in directly. At this point in time, I am awaiting disks for iPhoto and iMovie installation. I also found out that I will have to load all my photos and videos and such from the backup disks I have created through the years. Blech. I knew this would be time consuming. Being as MobileMe closes in June, I'm sure glad I started migrating early...
Thank you for your help. I may just leave this discussion open in case I have more questions after I get the disks and the new external hard drive I ordered (which is temporarily out of stock.)

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Thanks for the helpful information. I had an inkling that the .plist Mail file might have been the cause after all of this happened, but had no idea it was necessary before the fact -- which of course is partly-my-fault, partly-the-world's. (As I see it.) So, the .plist file is gone, but my messages still exist, inbox, outbox, and all of the mailboxes.
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