Cleaning up after System Restore

-----Original Message-----
Hello. I've done as many searches as I can think of on
Google and Microsoft, and come up empty. So I'm turning
to this community in final hope of what I think may be
some simple, if apparently obscure, answers.

I, perhaps like many of us, have used the System Restore
facility of Windows XP a lot. I've got a lot of restore
checkpoints. I've also got a lot of "backup" folders and
files (name(1), name(2), etc.) from restoring to those
checkpoints. It stands to reason that some of these are
so dated as to have become useless. I was wondering if
there is any way to intelligently cleanup these items,
or
if they are forever tangled into the System Restore
spaghetti pile.

Thanks in advance for any links, docs, pointers, or
personal experiences you can offer.

bw
.