Trimming the fat - moving and deleting files to save space.

I have a bit of a dilemma. I have a large number of applications that require to be installed on my startup disk. Thanks to large audio libraries and plugins, it just about fills it up.
I was fortunate enough to have put in a second internal HD (props to ME and their optibay) so I was able to move things like the audio content of my iTunes library over to that drive, my Aperture library, and a few game like WoW over there, savings tons of space. However, after a disaster corrupting my drive, I had to wipe and reinstall the OS and al of the software from scratch. I had about 2GB of space left. Here are some areas I think can be moved or "trimmed:"
• Printers. I've dumped all of the printer drivers I'll never use, freeing up 3.5GB worth of space. It's a good start.
• When reinstalling my audio apps, I started with Logic Pro 7, then all of the Jam Packs I had, and the Logic Pro 8. It looked like 8 came with all of the Jam Packs already had plus another one or two I didn't. Did it write over, or skips the already-installed instruments, or did it create multiples stored in slight different locations. This has the potential of shaking out a few more GBs.
• Loops. The Jam Packs and Logic Pro 8 came with a bunch. I know I had most of them uninstalled previously, but opted to add them in this time around for some current projects. Is it possible to relocate them to the second internal drive without too many headaches for Logic and Soundtrack to find them?
• iWeb creates its on hierarchy of copied media for working with my website. Is it possible to relocate this library as you would in iTunes and Aperture and just point the app to it at startup? The hold-down-option-key-at-launch method doesn't seem to prompt anything as it usually would...
• iWork '09 Trial. I've tried it, decided I like parts, but don't want to bother with it until I need some of the new presentation features. The compressed disk image download itself was fairly sizable, so I know this would clear up some more space. The problem is, I don't see an uninstaller anywhere, and its files are located in different places in the system libraries. Does anyone know of an uninstaller I missed? How about a list of all of the iWork '09 file locations?
Apple's make it "just work" mantra of software is useful, but a big disk-space hog. Things from printers we'll never use to old software that you've got the old versions still hanging around cough iWor- cough iLi- cough just don't work for power-users who use their machine as the swiss-army knife of media tools.
Also, should I be looking defragment my disk after all of these measures are taken? I'd do it for a windows machine, but i don't know enough about AFS to choose how to or even whether or not I should.
A tool like Cocktail would help clear some of the space taken over by logs and caches, but I believe that is what corrupted my disk in the first place. Please, oh thou knowledgeable forum dredgers, help me! You're my only hope...

By moving the soundtrack and logic pro loop libraries to my second internal HD, I've been able to leave an alias on the original HD pointing to them on the second drive and the applications seem to have no problem using them.

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