Boot hd full but only half accountable

My primarily HD or boot disk is 60gb large: CAPACITY = 57.26gb, USED = 49.37gb and AVAILABLE = 7.89gb. “What Size” totaled my USED at 23.7gb of 47.37gb; WHAT GIVES?? To compound the situation, My screen freezes for about 5 or so seconds when I dive into my “DOCK” to open an application.

Look at these links.
Where did my disk space go?
http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=
Forum38&Number=770243
Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html
Increase HD Free Space
http://macosx.com/forums/howto-faqs/275191-how-easily-
increase-hd free-space-laptop.html
How to free up my disk space
http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html
 Cheers, Tom
Thank you very much TOM!, for the recommendations!! That said, I regret to inform you, that, I had to erase the boot drive using the Disk Utilities method and start from scratch. Luckily! I had no files (i.e. PSD FCP . . .) all those were and are being kept on three separate HDz. I only have to install OS X and other applications, for a fresh start! Some good did come of mild irration; I purchased a New Intel Mac. I needed (OK I wanted) a new MAC to run the latest FCP Studio2 & CS3!
Once again thank you very much & HAVE A GREAT SUMMER
Bill

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