Restore fonts in Library

Hi all, I'm new here & hoping someone can help.
When I download a font, I drag & drop it in to Macintosh HD - Library - Fonts. Probably not the right way to do things, so any tips on that would be much appreciated. So...
I basically want to restore the fonts in this folder to the ones that came with my Mac, so I can start from scratch, and catalogue where I get fonts from, make sure they're from a reputable source etc. So how do I do this?
I thought I could restore from Time Machine, but I can't, as I imported everything across from my old iBook & the fonts were messy on there too. I tried logging in as Admin rather than my user, but they're not "original" there either. I also wondered if I could do it from the original install disk, but it looks like I'd have to reinstall the whole system, which I don't want to do!
I could manually delete the ones that shouldn't be there if anyone has a list of the originals..?
Any advice would be much appreciated.

That is the right way to do it. The following fonts are bundled with Mac OS X 10.6:
AlBayan.ttf
AlBayanBold.ttf
AmericanTypewriter.ttc
Andale Mono.ttf
Apple Chancery.ttf
Apple LiGothic Medium.ttf
Apple LiSung Light.ttf
AppleMyungjo.ttf
Arial Black.ttf
Arial Bold Italic.ttf
Arial Bold.ttf
Arial Italic.ttf
Arial Narrow Bold Italic.ttf
Arial Narrow Bold.ttf
Arial Narrow Italic.ttf
Arial Narrow.ttf
Arial Rounded Bold.ttf
Arial Unicode.ttf
Arial.ttf
ArialHB.ttf
ArialHBBold.ttf
Ayuthaya.ttf
Baghdad.ttf
Baskerville.ttc
BiauKai.ttf
BigCaslon.ttf
Brush Script.ttf
Chalkboard.ttc
Chalkduster.ttf
CharcoalCY.dfont
Cochin.ttc
Comic Sans MS Bold.ttf
Comic Sans MS.ttf
Copperplate.ttc
Corsiva.ttf
CorsivaBold.ttf
Courier New Bold Italic.ttf
Courier New Bold.ttf
Courier New Italic.ttf
Courier New.ttf
DecoTypeNaskh.ttf
DevanagariMT.ttf
DevanagariMTBold.ttf
Didot.ttc
EuphemiaCASBold.ttf
EuphemiaCASItalic.ttf
EuphemiaCASRegular.ttf
Futura.ttc
GenevaCY.dfont
Georgia Bold Italic.ttf
Georgia Bold.ttf
Georgia Italic.ttf
Georgia.ttf
GillSans.ttc
GujaratiMT.ttf
GujaratiMTBold.ttf
Gungseouche.ttf
Gurmukhi.ttf
HeadlineA.ttf
Hei.ttf
HelveticaCY.dfont
Herculanum.ttf
Hiragino Sans GB W3.otf
Hiragino Sans GB W6.otf
Hoefler Text Ornaments.ttf
Hoefler Text.ttc
Impact.ttf
InaiMathi.ttf
Kai.ttf
Kailasa.ttf
Kokonor.ttf
Krungthep.ttf
KufiStandardGK.ttf
MarkerFelt.ttc
Microsoft Sans Serif.ttf
MshtakanBold.ttf
MshtakanBoldOblique.ttf
MshtakanOblique.ttf
MshtakanRegular.ttf
Nadeem.ttf
NewPeninimMT.ttf
NewPeninimMTBold.ttf
NewPeninimMTBoldInclined.ttf
NewPeninimMTInclined.ttf
NISC18030.ttf
Optima.ttc
Osaka.ttf
OsakaMono.ttf
Papyrus.ttc
PCmyoungjo.ttf
Pilgiche.ttf
PlantagenetCherokee.ttf
Raanana.ttf
RaananaBold.ttf
Sathu.ttf
Silom.ttf
Skia.ttf
STHeiti Medium.ttc
Tahoma Bold.ttf
Tahoma.ttf
Times New Roman Bold Italic.ttf
Times New Roman Bold.ttf
Times New Roman Italic.ttf
Times New Roman.ttf
Trebuchet MS Bold Italic.ttf
Trebuchet MS Bold.ttf
Trebuchet MS Italic.ttf
Trebuchet MS.ttf
Verdana Bold Italic.ttf
Verdana Bold.ttf
Verdana Italic.ttf
Verdana.ttf
Webdings.ttf
Wingdings 2.ttf
Wingdings 3.ttf
Wingdings.ttf
Zapfino.ttf
ヒラギノ丸ゴ Pro W4.otf
ヒラギノ丸ゴ ProN W4.otf
ヒラギノ明朝 Pro W3.otf
ヒラギノ明朝 Pro W6.otf
ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3.otf
ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W6.otf
ヒラギノ角ゴ Std W8.otf
ヒラギノ角ゴ StdN W8.otf
儷宋 Pro.ttf
华文仿宋.ttf
华文宋体.ttf
华文楷体.ttf
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