Removing Language Files

Hello all!
I have an iBook G3 Clamshell Tangerine, 300 MHz with 192 MB Ram and 6GB HD, currently running OS 10.2.8 and I'd like to remove the language files to give it some more HD space. My problem is that Monolingual is for 10.3.x and above. I've read many excellent reviews of the freeware utility Bombich's DeLocalizer, but he has 'retired' that utility and doesn't carry it on his website anymore. Does anybody know of a third party site that still carries it? Since it's freeware, I woudn't see why Mike Bombich would mind third party sites continuing to offer it, even if he doesn't support it anymore. Or would anyone have a copy of this utility they would be will to send to me.
I have a second problem on this machine. I installed Norton Utilities and Anti-Virus on this machine, and it installed some things in my startup items folder. I deleted Norton Utilities and Anti-Virus, but I can't seem to remove the stuff in the startup items folder. Macfixit.com listed a freeware utility called Boot Config that was supposed to allow you to disable startup items in your /Library and /System/Library folders. Their link to download takes you to a page that says it's not available on that site anymore. Here again, can anyone point me to someplace where I can find a copy of this item?
Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.

I'm sorry, I guess I should have posted this in the iBook forum.
But this might apply to my 'Fresh Fruits' post of a couple of weeks ago.
I actually have a family license for Mac OS 10.2.X, and I only have it on one machine (the iBook) at the moment. I just updated the iBook from 10.2.6 to 10.2.8, and then downloaded an older version of Camino. It's a big improvement on it for web browsing, and I could probably get away with using 10.2.8 and this version of Camino on both the Strawberry and Grape iMacs, because of the improvement from OS 8.6. But now that I think about it, I could just custom install 10.2.X on these, and that would allow me to remove the language files.
Oh well. Sorry.

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