OSX Factory Install - Program Removal

Hi,
I've had my black MacBook all of 5 days and I've been spending a lot of time on this and other forums picking up a bunch of good tips (thanks everyone) and in all that reading I've seen several places where people refer to freeing up HD space by removing programs that come pre-installed with OSX, but I've not come across a list of things that are safe to remove. What are some of the things that are safe to remove, better yet what are the thing that I shouldn't touch? I assume things like iPhoto can be removed, since I'll be using Lightroom. Being new to Mac I don't want to accidentally remove something that I need.
Thanks,
JB

If you want, you can also use appdelete which is third party program that will delete installed application along with its library and preference that usually not included if you drag the application to trash and empty it.
http://reggie.ashworth.googlepages.com/appdelete
Also you can use monolingual that will remove other language that installed by default that you don't use.
http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/
Make sure to UNCHECK the language that you use (english?), and don't play with input menu and architecture since it might make your macbook unresponsive and you ended up with reinstalling your OS again while the space those option claim is not that significant.
Also use machelpmate or Onyx to delete temporary and user cache file, repair permission and optimize your HD.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/machelpmate.html
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/onyx.html
Good Luck.

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