System Running Slow-Disk Utility Shows Only 4GB Free - Help!

what are some of the common things that can be deleted that newbies don't realize take up space? I am encountering the beach ball when I try to do things like go between web pages or launch applications, etc. It appears that I am showing only 4.3 GBs available.
Since I share this Mac with my whole family, (movies, music, etc,) I'm suspecting that we are holding things that need to be deleted or saved to CD/DVD. This really didn't start until I upgrade to Leopard and also am using Time Capsule.
I appreciate any help for a novice!

You can safely delete anything in your home account / caches folder
/Users/account/Library/Caches
Sort by size, and dump some of the larger ones, like MetaData, and also look for QuickTime cache folder and others.
Backup to a FireWire drive or get one...
http://www.macsales.com/firewire
and repair your boot drive.
You could store common media files on external drive, partition it so you have room for a full backup of your drive, and room for media files on 2nd partition.
Take a look at where space is getting used:
http://www.omnigroup.com/omnidisksweeper
Pulling and upgrading your internal drive, and put it in a FW case, would probably make sense too.

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