Trying to increase HD space...

Hi,
I'm using a 2006 60 gig white Macbook. Its running Snow Leopard. I have moved absolutely everything that I can possibly think of over to a terabyte hard drive. So the only things that are on this Macbook are the Apple Apps that came with it. Ok there are two that didn't, but they don't take up much space at all.
Its saying that I only have about 13 gigs of HD space left. Are there files and apps lurking in places that I wouldn't know to look? I have no pictures, no music, no movies, no video on the HD (that I know of). My Garageband projects have been moved to the terabyte also. So… is there something that I have overlooked? Any help is appreciated… (I really don't want to have to wipe it clean and start over if I don't have to. But it has been cloned in case of an emergency.)
Thanks...
"O"

The amount of free space you're reporting sounds about right so there's probably no scope for any further improvements. I think you should follow the advice of cereskit and get a bigger disk. Although popular mythology has it that Mac disks don't need defragmenting, this is only true when one keeps more than 20% of the disk empty. Once the disk is more than 80% full, newer files become fragmented and the whole system slows down - and you've probably reached the point where this is happening.
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