MacBook clean reinstalls

Just thought I would share this (painful) experience with you folks so nobody will need to go through the frustrations I went though.
I got a new Macbook (white, 13"). Being the control freak I am, first thing I did was to do a clean re-install of OSX Tiger from the original discs (v10.4.10). This was so I only had what I wanted on my notebook, and not other needless stuff.
After the welcome screen, first thing I did, without starting any apps, was to run software update. This led to installation of the iLife updates (iPhoto 7.02 and iMovie 7.01). All was hunky dory, rebooted...
After the reboot, clicking on iPhoto and iMovie resulted in nothing. The icon would just bounce a few times, and... nothing. The application would not launch. This is one of the (many!) threads on Apple's support forums which shows this issue is not a unique one:
discussions.apple.com/me...=5319234#5319234
Yes, yes. I repaired permissions, deleted plist file etc etc. No joy. Rung Apple Support - completely clueless. To make things worse, none of the forums provided solutions to this problem.
What was the solution? I re-installed OSX again (grr....), but this time, instead of installing the iLife patches straight away, I opened iPhoto, iMovie FIRST; exited, then ran software update, applied the latest patches, rebooted and waa-laa... no problems.
My gripe with this:
1. What if your "typical user" did what I initially did? What a quandary they would be in!
2. How can Apple make such a basic mistake? Won't there be a appreciable number of power users out there that would have done what I did, and applied patches on the first install?
I hope anyone who have had this problem find this post useful.

You can turn on 'show folder sizes' or use WhatSize but when I installed iLife it added 4GB to top level Library along with iWork itself taking up 2GB and iWeb was nearly 1GB. Audio files for Garageband - didn't install but a lot there, and documentation files and samples.
If you want, just delete, or backup/clone your system and then delete.

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