Is there a way to figure out what takes up a lot of memory using Spotlight?

My 80 GB iMac apparently has 70 of the gigabytes used by various things on the computer, but I am at a loss as to what. My pictures take up about 15 GB and my music about the same, but even with that amount, I can't figure out where the other 50 have gone. I'm thinking there might be something like a large movie I created long ago hidden somewhere but it's not in any obvious place. I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to search for files by size using a method that would perhaps list what is the biggest and therefore taking up all this space because I am almost out of disk... Thanks.
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

You can use WhatSize to tell you what is using up the space on your hard disk.
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