Keep it lean or all in one place??

Ok, I direct this at all you old and grey mac users who have been using them for years and have seen many setups. Others, feel free to chime in if you have anything at all to say
I have my iMac here.It has a 320GB Hard drive. I have many other externals as well. I am have this funny obsession with HD space, I love having loads, I love having loads of data and backups, but I feel the need for loads of free space.
Any way, My iMac is running a bit slow and I want to try speed it up a bit. There is 23.59GB of applications, 16GB of iTunes, a few GB's of movies and 30 something GB's of photos (which are extremely valuable and precious so are on almost all HD's so lets forget about them and think of them as system files per say.
Would I be better off reinstalling Leopard on the internal, and installing all my app's, itunes, movies and the like on a partition of my Firewire 800 drive. This would keep my main system lean and mean, but allow for fast access to other data. Is this a wise idea? Am I mad to even suggest having app's not on the boot drive? Like I have the entire CS4 master collection, FCS 2, FCE, Quark 8 etc all installed. I am concerned that these heavy app's have clogged up my system.
I have the 2.8Ghz iMac with 4GB of ram, got last december, and frankly, it's not running how a machine like this should be.
Let me know your thoughts on this, everyone and anyone, even if your just saying "hey, my machine is the same and its running fine, this is my setup..." etc
Hoping for a large response please!
Regards

On question, where would you keep files that are not current but not old if you get me. For example, a folder of short, funny movie clips that is added to rarely, but is added to?
The only difference is that I keep my raw footage, for fear of needing it in the future.
I keep all raw footage, i.e. I keep the original tapes.
The finished movies end up on a DVD (also a kind of backup), the TS files are kept on the external in its Movie Folder for instant playback as required, as are those snippets, free title sequences (clouds, waves etc), and bits and pieces one receives from friends and relatives. These all have an alias in the Movies Folder on the internal drive so Front Row can find them. Similar setup with the iTunes library.
My Documents Folder is also backed up regularly on to DVDs, but otherwise just kept up to date as part of the regular cloning.
Not (yet) having a digital camera, my 9000 or so scanned negatives and slides (200 dpi TIFF files, each around 8MB) are sorted in folders by year, each of which is backed up on DVDs, and the entire 'Archive' is backed up on the external drive on two different partitions. Yes, I know, that is like keeping the only two copies of your will in the same safe, but for me that will have to do!
As for fragmentation, that really is not a problem with OS X. Perhaps one could, every year or two, delete the internal drive and clone back from the clone, if you see what I mean. But even via firewire it takes half a day to copy up to 200GB, and life is short enough already!

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