Running out of drive space?

Hello,
for the background of my MacBook, it's a white one I bought in I think Jan of 07.
It had 60 GB (I know, it's killing me.) HD, 512MB RAM, and MacOS Tiger.
This past summer, I upgraded the RAM to 2 GB, and to MacOS Snow Leopard.
Everything was fine until recently I keep getting messages that my startup disk is full. so I checked and it's been under 500MB!!! But the weird thing is that only few days ago I cleaned most of the things out including iphone apps I no longer use and a lot of songs, and it was at about 6 GB. And all the sudden, under 500 MB?
Also I use Adobe design suit here, mostly photoshop, illustrator and indesign, and I use all three at the same time most of the time. And when the start up message started popping up, I couldn't use all three programs anymore because there were no room left, so if I close one program (especially photoshop) it would free about 200MB again. But Illustrator didn't really do much. So I am not sure, could this be a virus??? I still believe no virus can come into a mac, but this is making me worry... like a lot......! I have to finish my book design soon and I cannot even save my work on the hard drive! :,(
Can someone please help me ><! Thank youuuuuuuu!!!

I would definitely suggest a bigger hard drive. Even if you're not saving data, your computer is updating programs and saving preferences and other things that take up lots of disk space.
I was in your position with my 160GB HDD and have recently upgraded to a 320GB. If you are in the market for a new hard drive, you can find plenty for a very reasonable price here:
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=380&name=Laptop-Hard-Dr ives
Just a note- Adobe Creative Suite programs need LOTS of extra disk space, and running them simultaneously would definitely dwindle away your free space. On my old hard drive, I could have 7 or 8 GB of free space, but when I started Photoshop and worked for a while, this would gradually deplete to 1 or 2 GB. After a while, I used a free program called *Disk Inventory X* (linked below) and found out that Photoshop was creating a cache as it was running that was 5 or 6 GB. This would explain why they won't run correctly with little free space left.
Disk Inventory X: http://www.derlien.com/ This program is very handy! It shows you an image of every file on your computer, the size of each based on the amount of space that file takes up on your hard drive. I suggest to use it and see if there are some large files you can get rid of. Best of luck!

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