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I am definitely a packrat. I agree with Chris, since storage space is so cheap, why not keep them all? So I do.
However, I also have a culling process: It's called printing. When you take 3-4 shots of each picture (pictures of each shot?), you learn real quick that you won't be printing all of them. So I always end up doing the A-B thing with my photos to find the best one of each set. Those are all copied into their own folder, usually titled 'print'. Then I examine each of those photos and do color-correction, image enhancement etc. What I am left with is a group of photos that are all excellent. And I still have the originals in case I need them. I can always archive them on DVD if I need the HD space (not likely when I work with 3GB video files). I may also create a second nested folder titled 'email' where I might downsample the finals into an easily-emailed size.
In short, I say keep as much as possible, but learn to identify your best pics and seggregate them so you can find them again easily in the future.
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