Uninstalling Xcode 3.0: Is trashing the developer folder sufficient?

Hi. I'm not a developer. The only reason I attempted to install Xcode 3.0 was to tinker with the performance and diagnostic tools. Now I am ready to uninstall it. I've have uninstalled it once, using the provided script. It seemed to have cleaned out everything, (the developer folder was completely empty).
I thought I could install the package selectively so I tried running the CHUD package but it gave some sort of odd error. So I gave up and installed the whole developer package again. A few weeks later I was ready to uninstall it. I tried running the script but it gave me a few errors. When I checked the developer folder there was still some files left behind. The remaining files all appeared to be related to the CHUD component of the installation. I was a bit vexed. I tried reinstalling the whole package and running the uninstall script but the files remained.
When looking at the file installation list it appeared that everything was installed in the developer folder. I trashed what was left in the developer folder, being fairly confident that the entire installation was cleaned out. Though I'm not totally sure. Which brings me to my question.
Is there anything left behind from an Xcode 3.0 installation if I simply chose to trash the contents of /Developer? I suspect that some is left behind because the installation error from the CHUD package seemed to have changed something that prevented the uninstaller script from properly removing the entire installation. Sorry if I seem a bit fussy. Thanks for reading this.

Hi, thanks for answering. Actually I had attempted to use that script as mentioned in my post. It had worked reliably before but it did not work when I ran it a second time. I suspected that a botched installation using the CHUD package on the Leopard DVD had screwed up something in the bom, preventing the perl script from doing a proper job of cleaning out all the files.
Anyways, after looking around I found out that Apple has made available a separate installation package for CHUD. So I installed that and then tried uninstalling using the CHUD remover app. It seems to have removed everything except a CPU preference pane in the extras folder.
Anyways I'm pretty sure that my tinkering these last couple of days should have removed all the installed system files. I even selected a few random files per the xcode installation list and checked to see if they were still in the system. The scripts and app seem to do a pretty good job of cleaning up as far as I can tell. The fact that uninstaller did not always do a proper job of cleaning up the installation was always a pet peeve of mine from the windows world.
I've given up on making sure that every single file has been removed. My big concern is whether stuff left behind in the system folders would have a negative impact on system performance or would cause problems in systems operation.
Another thing is that I didn't see the point in giving up 2 gigs of HD space when I only planed to use only a small component of the SDK. Apple should have included the separate CHUD package on the Leopard DVD. Just my 2 cents.
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