Install SL from scratch or upgrade over 10.5.6 ?

I'm certain this has been addressed but I can't put my finger on it just right now..
I installed SL onto a fresh SSD drive and it works just fine (have not tried TM yet). I notice this must be an upgrade to Leopard as there are few of myh previous applications that came with Leopard. I suspect this is because I did a fresh install without the previous version of Leopard present. That's fine I guess but now how do I go about getting these appson this SSD SL disc without doing a 10.5.X install and SL install ?
Thanks all

Thanks balto and WL..well since it's already installed and taylored with my personal tweaks I'm gonna leave it. I've just added ilife09 (had a stand alone) and FCE4. This gives me the the option to taylor the apps on this Intel SSD and keep to the basic/must.
My question which you answered thank-you kindly was to confirm SL did not indeed include such apps. I suspect I can move things around with the "migration assistant",,don't you just luv these Macs..:)

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