Making more room on my hard drive

I have just installed an external hard drive to my G4 Cube. I want to reinstall iTunes because I have been having problems with the updated versions, but I cannot because it says it has to be installed on the startup drive...of which I only have about 4.5GB remaining. What can I do to gain more disk room to reinstall?
Thanks
PS, I am a novice when it comes to Mac computers. I am much better with the "other" OS. . . so I will need step by step instructions so I don't demolish this G4 Cube
cube g4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Thanks for the replies.
I had an enormous amount (approx 1500) of photos on this hard drive, of which I have sent to the external hard drive, then deleted from the startup drive. However, it seems as though the space that these photos took up was not replaced. At least I cannot see an improved increase in the disk space listed on the start up drive.
Is there a way to definitely check this?
Thanks for any help.
#2 question: Is there a scaled down version of iTunes that can be installed. I just want to be able to listen to the internet radio listings and don't need all the other features. The upgrade to 7.0 caused the sound to be muted. I want to replace the upgrade with the older version.
Suggestions?
cube g4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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