Question about specific items I'd like to get off my hard drive

My little 80 GB iMac hard drive is full, so I'm using the WhatSize application (I love this app!) to find what's taking up all the space. The following things I'm not sure about, so I was wondering if someone could tell me what to do about these:
1) Previous Systems.localized -- This is taking up almost 5 GB. Is this what was saved when I upgraded from Panther to Tiger? (I still have Tiger.) That was when Tiger first came out, so it is not likely I would need those, if that's what this is. Is it? Can I just delete this?
2) I have a 250 GB external hard drive where I store all my photos and music. However, WhatSize shows 7 GB on my iMac listed as "Volumes", and that is my iPhoto library, which is housed on an external drive. If my library is housed on the external hard drive, why does the iMac keep that space on its own hard drive? Is there a way to fix this? (I have iPhoto '08.) In WhatSize, using a Finder-like window, the 7 GB shows as "Volumes," in the next column is the name of my external hard drive, and in the next column is "iPhoto Library." This does not make sense to me. When I run WhatSize on that external hard drive itself, it shows the iPhoto Library at 38 GB, which is the size I'd expect. Please help. Thanks!

Can I just delete this?
Yes.
If my library is housed on the external hard drive, why does the iMac keep that space on its own hard drive?
If an attempt is made to access a folder on an external drive or image when it isn't available to the computer, content may be written to the Volumes folder on the startup drive.
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