How to completely remove programs?

How do you completely uninstall programs on Mac OS?
I was freeing up disk space yesterday and uninstalling pre-installed progs that I dont need so I wanted to get rid of GarageBand. I dragged GarageBand from the Applications folder to Trash but that leaves all of its libraries on the drive. I had to use WhatSize to find them and remove them that way. Then other programs may come with uninstall instructions where you have to go to various folders and remove things manually. Is there no uninstaller on mac os?

yes but it comes from third party like :
http://www.matterform.com/mac_software/uninstaller/index.html
http://downloads.theregister.co.uk/Mac/Utilities/uninstaller-mac.html
for both you might have to pay $20.
Check their documentation for compatibility with 10.4.7 and macintel.
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