Running out of HD room, need a little advice...

Hi everyone.
My 100 gig internal drive is just about full so I'm in the process of getting a pocket 120 gig fw drive and I want to backup, erase and reinstall my apps and docs on the internal (do a little house cleaning) and have everything running nice and fresh.
Can anyone offer any advice, tips, tricks or third part apps that make this task easier (if any)? My local Mac dealer said basically, all I need to do is to take my Home folder and copy it to the external drive, then wipe my hd clean, reload my apps and move that home folder back over? Is this correct? Will everything be there (mail, bookmarks etc)?? I'm curious because according to the info, there is 33 gigs of stuff in that home folder and apparently only 13 gigs of apps (which only adds up to 46 gigs, so where's the remaining 47 gigs?).
One last question, I've just received my Universal FC Studio discs and I know it's HUGE if I install all the loops provided, can the loops for Live Type and Soundtrack Pro be installed on the pocket fw drive where I can access them only when I need to?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Rene.

You asked.....
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local Mac dealer said basically, all I need to do is
to take my Home folder and copy it to the external
drive, then wipe my hd clean, reload my apps and move
that home folder back over? Is this correct? Will
everything be there (mail, bookmarks etc)??
I would NOT recommend you do that. Whether everything you need is in your Home folder, will depend entirely on how you have your work organized.
I recommend backing up EVERYTHING, the whole disk. Otherwise, sure as heck, you'll look for something, and it won't be there.
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