How to reformat and install

I'd like to get a clean start on my MBP and do a reformat and install with Leopard. I've never done this before, so I have no idea what I need to do. I have 500G external hard drive that is partitioned to have some storage space and some backup space.
I have pictures in iPhoto (waaaaaay too many), some fonts I've downloaded, and music files. Plus just all my regular documents and such.
What's the best way to go about this??? Any tips and advice are more than welcome.

It doesn't sound like you need to wipe the drive and reinstall everything fresh. Depending on how much "stuff" you have, this could be up to a weekend long project. Thanks to the way OS X is organized, there is little that can go wrong with the System and Library folders at the root level and there's very little inside that you can touch. If your machine is healthy why bother?
That leaves the Applications folder and your own drive space. Here's a hint for cleaning up the applications folder. Use the Label feature to give every program in the Applications folder a red labe and before you launch a red program, unlabel it. At the end of a month check out every program that is still labeled red. There are three possibilities: 1) it is a program that was installed by Apple. Probably don't want to delete it. 2) it is a program that you didn't use this month but know you use. 3) it is a program you realize that you almost never use and can be deleted.
Every program has a configuration file called a plist and many will create a folder in the Applications Support folder of your Library. As you delete programs you can manually delete the plist and support folder or you can buy a shareware program to do it manually. AppZapper is one.
Your own drive space. This is the tough one and I apply a variation of the applications method described above. There are files I know I frequently use. For me, these are kept in project folders. Anything that isn't in a project folder, in iTunes, or iPhoto gets labeled red. As I use it I unlabel it. Every six months I take all the red files and create archives. Then I label all the files red again. I've found that I seldom have to unarchive a file. BTW, the archives also get labeled red and if after 6 months they are still red, I move them to my archival hard drive.

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