getting gnome out of xfce4 in debian

["Jimmy Wu" <jimmywu013@gmail.com>]

I like xfce4 because it is lighter than GNOME and yet has almost as
many features.

I used the netinstall CD to install a Debian desktop, and it gave me
GNOME.  No problem, I installed the xfce4 meta-package.  What is
strange is how much of GNOME is still present in Xfce4.  For example,
the launcher to start a graphical terminal emulator starts
gnome-terminal.  Even the command xfterm4 starts gnome-terminal for
some reason I cannot fathom.

What I want to hopefully do is remove as much of GNOME as possible,
and have an independent xfce4 desktop instead of this bizarre amalgam.
 However, I would like to keep the convenient system configuration
tools (like power management, etc) that GNOME offers but Xfce4 lacks.

Is there any simple, _clean_ way to do this?  The cleanest way I can
think of is to reinstall using the Debian xfce4 iso and add the gnome
utilities one by one, but that would be a real hassle, involving
downloading and burning an iso and going through the whole install
process all over.

Thanks in advance for your help!
-- 
Jimmy
Registered Linux User #454138