Minimal SL install on Flash Drive

I had previously done this with Tiger, but so far haven't had any luck with Snow Leopard. Anyway..
Basically, I want a bare-bones install of Snow Leopard onto a USB flash drive. I don't need any of the extra programs such as Front Row, iTunes, whatever. All I want is an install of Snow Leopard with the basic utilities (Disk Utility, Terminal, etc.) and Safari.
I need it to deploy pre-made images onto Macs for quick re-imaging. We also do the same type of thing on our Windows machines and managed to get the bare-bones Windows install on a flash drive down to a little over 600mb. Now I realize that 600mb probably won't happen with Snow Leopard, but I am looking for something around or under 2gb.

I'm not sure how it relates to "quick re-imaging" but the easiest way I know to make a minimal install of Snow Leopard is to create a partition on a HD, install the whole thing on it normally (taking advantage of the options not to install any unnecessary extras like common printers or extra languages) & then start deleting stuff from it you don't need.
If you are intent on a bare bones version, use Monolingual to remove excess language support, carefully dig down into /Library/Application Support looking for items supporting the apps you remove & other similar /Library/ items & remove them too.
Test the result for functionality & once you know it works as expected, clone (not copy) the partition to the Flash Drive, making sure it uses a compatible partition scheme (GPT or APM but not MBR).

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