Bootcamp Partitioning Problem - HELP!

Hi,
I'm having a completely frustrating time trying to partition my hard drive in order to install Windows 7 via bootcamp.
I have used the Bootcamp Assistant to attempt division several times (trying to split between 5gb and 50gb to see if any would work) but each time I am presented with a message that:
"The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved.
Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again."
At the moment I don't have the facility to completely back up my hard drive and, after searching several forums the problem seemed to be solvable by defragmenting the whole drive to leave an area of contiguous space at the end of the drive. I created a bootable copy of iDefrag in order to allow the whole drive to be defragmented without having to worry about open programs etc...and left it running last night.
When I woke this morning defragmentation had completed and I can see from the illustration on the program that there is a large amount of contiguous space free at the end of the drive.
I have a 500gb drive, 152gb free and am at a loss at to why the thing won't partition.
Any help or advice which avoids having to restore from a Time Machine or SuperDuper! backup greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your reply -
I have tried to follow the steps detailed within the link that you provided but am encountering yet another problem early into my attempt.
When partitioning through Disk Utility I am getting the following error regardless of the size of partition I am attempting to create:
'Could not modify partition map because filesystem verification failed'
Am trying to repair disk permissions but if that fails will have to invest in a large enough external to back up onto.
Thanks again/
Message was edited by: jacktorrance

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