How Do You Back-Up an Application That You Paid For and Downloaded?

Getting ready to do my first back-up EVER. I'm actually using 10.4.11 still, and am backing up before I install Leopard. But I DON'T want to back-up EVERY SINGLE APP on my iMac, because I already have many apps on CD. But there are a few apps I've bought online and downloaded. How do I back up just those? Is it as simple as dragging the icon of the app from the Applications folder to the back-up drive???

Hi Smokerz,
Yeah, that's what I thought. Just dragging from the Applications folder doesn't take into account any files the application has created in the Library > Application Support folder and I don't know where else (but I wouldn't be surprised if there are other places and files, depending on the nature of the app.)
Dang. I've never saved the dmg file or the pkg file from anything I've downloaded. Live and learn.
And of course, any other insights or possibilities, anyone?
Thanks!

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