Running out of hard disk space - hidden files?

I have a G4 PB with 80 GB hard disk that is now running out of space. According to disk utility, I only really have 74.5 GB usable hard disk space that now is down to 10.11 GB of space available. I figured out through th eFinder I have 44.42 GB tied up in my home folder (Documents, Music, Pictures, Movies) and another 7.2 GB in Applications. So my question is, where's the other 13 GB or so hiding?
Does anyone have any suggestions where I can find hidden files that are eating up my hard disk space? Any strategies for keeping hard disk space down (I am thinking of moving my iTunes folder (20GB) to an external HD)?
I tried Filelight (http://www.cnet.com.au/downloads/0,239030382,10580243s,00.htm) to map out where files may be hiding but it is a little tedious...
Thanks in advance for any help out there....
15 PowerBook G4 1.25 GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

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