Critical disk space! desperate for help!

here is the story. all of a sudden, my hard disk is telling me i have somehow filled 71.69 of 74.4 GB of disk space. the largest of these volumes on the HD is the Users folder in my Home folder. i did some research, and i heard that some console messages can tell someone about problems concerning volumes growing to unchecked sizes. i saw a series of messages in my "console.log" reading:
"Excessive update rate for jasonedwards@Jason Edwards’ Computer.presence.tcp.local.;"
does this mean anything at all? does anyone know? my computer is at critical mass, and as a musician, i am loathe to move all my music files to an external hard drive i cannot afford.
Please help!
-Jason

mr.spanky --
If you're uncomfortable with working with the Terminal,
you can download a free app called "Whatsize" which
will tell you what it taking up the space.
Here's where to find it:
http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/
Just a little other very friendly advice here --
You said:
my computer is at critical mass, and as a musician, i am loathe to move all my music files to an external hard drive i cannot afford.
If you're a serious musician, you can't afford NOT to get an external drive.
They cost about $80, and will save hours and hours of your work.
If you lost all of your music due to losing HD space,how much would that be worth? A lot more than $80, I bet.
All the best . . .
~Bee

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