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I'm curious if there's a "defragging" or "cleaning" service available from Apple that I can use to take back some of my hard drive space.

Here are some links with information and caveats.
http://www.macworld.com/article/28636/2004/01/cleaningutilities.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/133684/2008/06/maintenance_intro.html#lsrc.mod_r el
http://www.macworld.com/article/133730/2008/06/maintenance_routines.html#lsrc.mo d_rel
http://www.macworld.com/article/28480/2003/12/handson.html#lsrc.mod_rel
http://www.macworld.com/article/42286/2005/01/preventmacdisasters.html#lsrc.mod_ rel

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