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It has recently come to my attention that OS X behaves very nicely when combining a clean install with parts of a system image, if done right. Basically, you can do a clean install of OS X on your mac and afterwards apply some aspects of an image over the clean install to instantly install software, users and preferences from the image.
As long as you avoid clobbering /System/Library and the UNIX stuff in /usr, /etc, etc, you're pretty good to go. It is possible to move over all kinds of applications, preferences, etc without damaging the clean install.
This is pretty cool in my opinion as it allows a lot of different "re-install" options for those rare situations where a re-install of a machine is necessary or desirable.
After you perform this operation, you should perform "Verify Disk Permission" and "Repair Disk Permissions" in Disk Utility to ensure that everything is in order and all the UID stuff is fine.
This isn't so much of an installation tatic you should use but it serves to demonstrate that OS X is pretty flexible in it's design and abstraction of user data from system data.
well that's good to know, I've never re-installed my OS which is not what I can say for xp which has been re-installed about three times, in just under a year
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which has been re-installed about three times, in just under a year