Uninstall Printer Drivers, Additional Fonts, Language Translations?

I just did an Archive and Install of 10.4 from 10.3.9, ran the combo updater to 10.4.3, and then upgraded to 10.4.4, but my only partly-caffeinated bad self installed all the extras Printer Drivers, Additional Fonts, and Language Translations when I did the original A and I of 10.4.
I neither want nor need all these extras. How should I go about rectifying this situation?
Thanks!
Dual 2 GHz G5   Mac OS X (10.4.4)   6.5 GB RAM

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