There is an issue. Especially if you use a case sensitive filesystem. It seems that in Tiger several files start with an uppercase letter. Whereas in Leopard all the .gz files are lowercase. For example:

larik@hustler mann $ ls -al widget.n.gz Widget.n 
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3568 Dec 13 17:39 Widget.n
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2528 Dec 13 17:39 widget.n.gz

The following code can be used, just to remove all files which have an .gz equivalent. (You don't need the Leopard install DVD). Backup first and use at your own risk.

for f in $(find /usr/share/man -type f \! -iname '*.gz'); do
   lc=`echo $f | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"`
   ( [ -e ${f}.gz ] || [ -e ${lc}.gz ] ) && rm $f 
done

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