How do I find what's filling up my Startup Drive?

I have a small (20g) drive that is supposed to be just for system and applications, but somehow it is filling up -- all my media and data files are elsewhere.... other than searching through every folder, is there a way to identify what is taking up so much room? I have dumped some temp files in Entourage that were hiding ....but it is down to 700mb free space and running very sluggishly.
Gremlins?
Thanks...

When you consider 1 hour of DV video takes up 12 GB, I think you are dreaming if you can do work with Final Cut Pro on a 20 GB hard drive, unless all the work you do is on already compressed MPEG-2 video.
Don't sell yourself cheap. 500 GB drives are only $160 for desktop Macs.
Anyway, please start a new topic thread so someone can help you unclemax, if you have no advice to help the original poster. It sounds like you need someone to help you understand what is needed for your projects
The new topic links are at the forum level:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=580&start=0 this forum you are currently in.
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=939 Final Cut Pro
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=952 DVD Studio Pro
You'll get a wider audience, and won't confuse the original poster with solutions that don't apply to them.

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