Getting real slow!?

Hi all, isn't the wonderful world of mac a great place.
My problem is that recently I've noticed quite a slow down on my system. I'm running 10.3.9 on a 1GHZ iBook. I run the cron scripts regularly via mac janitor, I repair permissions pretty frequently too. I backup often enough using Super Duper to an external 250GB drive. The other day I installed onyx for some optimization and checked my free space, which currently stands at 8.58GB (more than the greater of 5GB and 10% of my 60GB drive) I know it's close to the thumb rule amount but i wasn't expecting to have to leave 8 gig free for slick running.
I guess my question is what's the best way of going about speeding things up? maybe i'm in denial about needing to purge my data? (3500 photos and growing steadily) How much of a difference will 3rd party software make, the dock hogging stuff you cherry pick from mac update etc?
Any thoughts and suggestions gratefully accepted.
Ben.
14 ibook G4, 512RAM, APxcard   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   1x250GB external, ipod20, My 3 yr old boy has amazing ability on my ibook!!

Thanks for all the suggestions (especially patting my head and rubbing my tummy LOL)
I have checked the RAM with memtest and no problems there, clean bill of health. I purged 5 gig of trash from finished imovie projects, unused apps along with their prefs files and I still have a slow system. Haven't taken it apart to check leads/connections and I don't plan to - no offense, I would if I could but 3 small kids and busy evenings lead me to think I'd make a mistake and make things worse. Errrm, what else, oh yeah, the partition suggestion, can you give me a bit more advice on that one please, it's at the top of my capability and I thought partitioning was a no no. Also, my wife uses the photos regularly and wouldn't want to have to connect the external to browse them - this the impression that I got from that suggestion, do put me straight if I'm wrong.
Ben.

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