What exactly should I clone/ backup for a bootable functional external HD?

I want to do two things with an external hard drive: 1) in one partition, clone the system & applications part of my computer; 2) in the other partition, keep my NORMALLY USED iTunes Library plus backups of documents and whatever else.
The question:
**what should I actually clone to the first partition?**
Will it work if I just clone the Applications and System folders? Within that partition, I just want the working parts of the system--Tiger and all my applications--and I want that as a bootable clone, but without all the disk-devouring music and photo libraries. (Those are backed up elsewhere.)
If one day my laptop's HD dies (again!), I want to just plug in the external HD, clone that first partition over, and see everything ready to use, but without the data. Will that work?
(Background: laptop HD is 80GB and uncomfortably full, mainly because of a 30GB+ music library; external LaCie HD is 80GB. I don't want to clone the complete HD because I want to use the LaCie to boost my functional HD space. Yeah, I should have bought a bigger external HD, oh well.)
It suddenly occurs to me it's rather pathetic to be writing this on Christmas Day. Oh well. It's not much of an occasion in Taiwan.

Oops... I was totally wrong about what the Library actually is. I thought it contained stuff that's actually within "Users".
SuperDuper is definitely what I wanted. I was having problems because I was trying to make a "bottom-up" collection of files: compiling all the relevant material, and that leads to all kinds of hidden files and stuff that I don't know to add. SuperDuper does it in a top down way: I can select a script to copy everything, and then adjust the script so the Picture folder is NOT copied. Problem solved, I think. (One page in the SuperDuper manual explains how to do this, but unfortunately my first scan of the manual missed that section!)
I've tried booting from the Picture/Movie/Music less external HD partition, and it works exactly as I wanted: the system's there but there are none of the memory-hogging collections.
Extra bonus is that I've now set this script up to clone the System and Applications components every two weeks.
Note that you CANNOT tailor things this way with the free version of SuperDuper; you have to pay for the license.
What I've got now: 80GB external HD has a 30GB partition with everything cloned (twice a month) EXCEPT for the Pictures, Movies, and Music folders. A 45GB partition currently has the music library (at about 30GB) and will probably collect other backups. And my laptop hard drive (nonpartitioned) now has 40GB of free space, to which in a few days (once I'm sure everything's working smoothly) I'll add about 10GB worth of burnt photo libraries.
I'm still a bit confused about "System" terminology: the System Folder with the OS, vs the System Disk, which I suppose is everything all together. However, that doesn't really matter now.
Thanks for everyone's help.

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