Reformating - suggest the best way

Hello,
About 4 months ago I bought a MBP. Before that I had a G4 Powerbook for two years. It was my first mac, and I can say that I really dint know how to use it at first, and so it developed some problems - nothing major, just some slowdowns, and the occasional application failure. I was too lazy to set up the MBP and manually transfer everything so I used the transfer wizard to essencially make my MBP my old powerbook.
My MBP has some simular problems as my powerbook. Some applications freeze up, some quit, and I am tired of waiting till Leopard for the clean reinstall.
Should I reinstall or just clean it up somehow- and if so what is the best way? Also the MBP came with a bunch of software that my powerbook did not have (iLife plus front row). Will I still have those after the reformat?
Thank you,

Best case, given you used the Migration Assistant I would clone your hard drive to an external drive (so yu have a source to copy from and a working bakcup if all goes wrong) and then start from scratch, erasing the drive and manually installing everything.
Yes it'll take you a day to do but a day well worth spending. It'll also be a nice practice run for when Mac OS X 10.5 comes out.
As for the software, everyting that came with your MBP is installable from the DVDs in the box.

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