What do you do with dead categories on your Link List?

[Greenguy]

I've got a couple of stinkers that I could merge in with other categories (I have no idea what compelled me to make all those blonde categories)

So let's say I want to combine the Blonde Hardcore page with the Blonde Nudes page into one "blonde" category.

Obviously, with the 2 choices for page names, I'd combine them onto blondes.htm - but what if it was a toss up? Id there a method to determine which page would be better to keep active? Maybe blacklinks? PR? Current traffic?

Now that I've combined them, what do I do with the old blonde_hardcore.htm page? I'd of course remove all links to it from the domain, but there's still other sites linking to it. Do I 302 it to the new page? Save a copy & just leave it as is so that the script no longer updates it? 404 it? Spam it up? (I kid...I kid)

So I'm looking for advice, especially from people that have done this in the past.