Making room on OSX primary drive?

Can anyone tell me what are the best things to move off the internal drive of a G5 OSX Tiger tower in order to make more room? (Applications?, scratch space etc?)
Its 160GB internal drive has 140 GBs on it now.
Just about all of the users data files (photos/ graphics) are already on external drives so I am looking for other things to move.
The computer is used by a friend heavily for web design work (Photoshop CS2, Dreamweaver etc.) and I would like to clean it up for them and move whatever I can to the external drives (Programs, scratch space, whatever…). I'd very much prefer not to reload the drive from new as there is plenty of external drive space available.
I suppose some of that internal drive is probably being used by Photoshop/ CS2 and I might be able to assign an external scratch drive? What else might be taking up so much space?
All tips or links to such information will be appreciated. Thanks.
db

I have a copy of virtual PC. It insists on using a folder in my documents folder for saving all of the virtual machine information. This folder is rather large. I used the terminal command ln to move the folder to my external hard drive. Virtual PC had no problem with this move. I do not think that Mac applications notice the ln redirects.
You can use the Unix command ln to redirect a reference to folder on your small partition to a folder on your larger partition. You need to be careful when you pick the folder. You best avoid any system folder, those folders needed at startup. You could pick some user data folder. Home folders, that is folders in /Users, are a good choice. Please try this when you have a full backup.
mac harddrive > Applications > Utilities > Terminal
man ln
ln -s target source
An alternative way would be to install SymbolicLinker. SymbolicLinker is a tiny contextual menu plugin that, once installed, allows any user to create symbolic links to files inside the Finder.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10433/
How to redirect your iPhoto and ITunes files to an external harddrive:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6058202#6058202
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