Patrick O'Callaghan:
This may not be the answer you're looking for, but (if this is all on the same machine of course) why are you reinstalling instead of updating? I for one can't remember the last time I did a fresh install. I've been updating version after version for at least the past 4 years, maybe more. I keep thinking that maybe I should reinstall just to get rid of random cruft, but can never be bothered to do it.
That would be exactly my answer. Why reinstall? It has to run and run and run and...
Upgrading painlessly to another release is *the* killer feature why I use Fedora and Debian.