Reinstall X11 on Snow Leopard

What is the best way to uninstall X11 from a system that has been upgraded to Snow Leopard?
Then I'm going to reinstall X11 from the Snow Leopard disc.
I'm motivated to do this because I'm seeing some flaky stuff from a unix application and I suspect that X11 may be the cause.

Bill Scott wrote:
One problem I ran into is that a newer version of X11.app was released that never made it into SL. If you have software compiled against that, reinstalling SL X11 isn't going to fix it for you.
Good point about recompiling. The problem application is one that I compile, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that my previous Leopard X11 was the culprit and compiling against the Snow Leopard X11 will fix things.
I too noticed that SL X11 is an older version of what what ultimately available on Leopard. Strange.
I'm keeping my eye on the xquartz wiki for an update for SL.
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki

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