Looking for a cache-clearing Terminal command

Hi,
I'm trying to clean up my MacBook a bit, since last month was its third birthday. One thing I'd like to do is clear out any superfluous font, user, and system caches. I've read that the command "atsutil databases -remove" will do this in Leopard, but I am still running Tiger (I'm scared that my Logic and graphics apps will take a performance hit). Does anyone know a similar command for Tiger? If not, is it safe to manually remove cache files from the Finder to the Trash?
Also, as a note, I'd rather not install any programs such as Cocktail.
Thanks!

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> Hi all,
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> I'm looking for an old mxp or command that I used some
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> maybe even before mxp's - I'm hoping that it will for me
in FW8.
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> correctly you defined the speed and opacity levels in
the ui and the
> tool then created the animation, frames etc.
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>
> btw - I'm thinking J Lowrey may have been the creator -
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