Prev. Systems Folder sizes and other folders appear after Arch and Install

Five days ago I did a successful Archive and Install and I now have on my external HD not only the Previous Systems Folder but two other folders, one named 'home' and one named 'net' - both empty. They do not appear on my Internal HD.
I have two questions:
1- The Previous Systems Folder on my HD is 5.7 GB; the Previous Systems Folder on my external HD is 31.02 GB!! Why such a difference? (And no wonder my Deja Vu backups are taking 5 hours.)
2-Is it OK to trash the empty 'home' and 'net' folders when I finally trash the Previous Systems Folders? Do they have any continuing purpose?

Dedo wrote:
The Internal system folder and my backup are the same, of course, because I backed up last night.
The Previous systems on the external appear to contain all the same things as my System and my backup System except the dates are older on the Previous files.
I have launched the multitude of applications I have on the Dock and all are fine. So are other apps and the many Utilities I've tried.
Cool. So toss the Previous System Folder.
BTW-I also have a folder on my internal HD just below Applications and Applications (Mac OS9) called BaseSystem.pkg.1637wIVhp. Do you know anything about that? It's 2 MB and has 50+ items in it mostly starting with com.apple.xxxx.enabled. Things like airportPrefsUpdater.enabled, coreservices, kernaleventmgr, reportcrash, periodic-daily, monthly, weekly.enabled.
No idea.
All carry the same date Jan. 22, 2008 and within a few minutes of each other except SystemVersion. plist which is about 3 mos. old Most are zero KB.
Do you know where these came from?

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