How do you and how often do you do maintanace?

I'm poor at doing maintenance. I'd like to get into a maintenance routine and I'm looking to hear what you all do to maintain your iMac, how often you do it and any software you use to help you.
Cheers,
sws

I run +Repair Disk Permissions+ on the Disk Utility +First Aid+ tab immediately before running Software Update to install any software update.
Additionally, if the update is a system update (such as for 10.5.7), I restart from another startup disk, such as an external drive or the Mac OS X installation disc, run Disk Utility, and this time use +Repair Disk+. I have a small external drive with a minimal Leopard installation (along with TechTool Pro and some other utilities) that I use for this purpose. Then I restart normally and let Software Update install the system update.
That is basically all the maintenance I do as a routine. I let Mac OS X take care of other "maintenance" and don't worry about it.

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