By default "apt-get remove package" doesn't purge everything related to the package. This eventually means that a log of configuration files are left scattered around the place with no corresponding packages. A couple of weeks ago, the following solution was proposed on #linux:
dpkg --purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f1`Submitted by Chris Herberte on Mon, 2006-12-18 05:54
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