Resetting Macbook

Hi
Ive owned my Macbook for about a year now and it is excellent. however it has started to get to the stage where its a tad ssssssssllllllllllooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwww, both in start up time and program loading time. I use pretty hefty programs such as pro-tools le and Logic Pro 8 (pro audio software) which have eaten away at the internal hard drives storage from 100g to now little over 10g. i have a suspicion that there maybe a few unneeded files on my Mac which so far i haven't been able to get rid of. And ive just added Leopard to the mix which has REALLY slowed the whole thing down. I back up my mac to an external hard drive where I can (e.g. all iTunes music).
would my best option be to:
1. buy a RAM upgrade to give my mac more headroom (before the spinning pinwheel of doom sets in)?
OR
2. Some how initialize my mac and re-install only the programs i need?
If the best option was number 2, how would i go about doing it?
thanks (and sorry for the essay)

Josh Rubner wrote:
1. buy a RAM upgrade to give my mac more headroom (before the spinning pinwheel of doom sets in)?
You really need to be running 2 GB in the Core Duo for the programs your running. That would help a lot.
2. Some how initialize my mac and re-install only the programs i need?
10 GB is not enough hard drive space for Leopard to run good with the programs your using. I would say you need a minimum of 20 GB to run efficiently.
There is no reason to start over, unless you just want to. I do that about once a year myself.
This should help get rid of some stuff.
The XLab: Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
If you decide to reinstall Leopard to clean up your system I recommend an Archive and install. This should explain it Mac OS X: About the Archive and Install feature
You would also be wise to do a custom install to get rid of all the extra language file, almost 2 GB , and printer drivers.

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