What am I doing wrong? I never have enough space! Help!!!

I have Mac OS X version 10.5.8. 148GB.
I moved all my music to an external disk because I keep getting a notification that I'm running out of space. I cleaned the cache and cookies and trash and all that with CCleaner and Cocktail application.
At the moment I have only 7GB of free space. 34.4GB are photos which I'll move away and no music files at all. Even after I move the photos to an external CD, I still have more than 100GB that suppose to be some applications (which I don't think take 100GB space) and I don't know what else.....
Can you tell me what could take so much space? Are there other files except cookies and the cache that the computer remember every time I surf the internet or use applications? Does it double pics of other files every time I open it?
Should I back up photos and files and restore my computer? and if Yes, how do I do that? and please if you can explain in simple english. I don't have much background in computers and to take it for tech help... they isn't an apple store here in my country, only an outside company that can help but it cost a lot of money just to give it to them for check up :-/
Thanks!

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