What is filling up my hard drive?

I only have about 4 GB of free space on my 40 GB hard drive and because of this the laptop is starting to slow down a bit.
I have gone through my folders and I am not completely sure what is occupying all the space as I only have about 13 GB of music and a couple of GB's of photos and film. Also, I have uninstalled any programs that I dont use regularly and with the exception of ilife, don't really have that many big applications installed.
Can anyone suggest what may be taking up all the space and maybe suggest an application that gives you a full breakdown of what is on your hard drive?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
G3 ibook 900 MHz 40 GB HD Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Matty:
What Size is somewhat like OmniDisk Sweeper which Ronda already linked, but it does one job of listing the contents of your HDD and sorting them by size. Download and run this and examine the output and see if your recognize anything that shouldn't be there.
Dr. Smoke's FAQ Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk has a number of good suggestions, including some which Ronda already mentioned.
Next to last, if you use your computer to store music files (iTunes) and photos, they take up a lot of space. You really should consider installing a larger HDD in your computer. Even the space you free up now will fill up again, and quickly. You should have about 10% to 20% of your total capacity as free space for your computer to run efficiently. A too full disk not only compromises performance but can lead to more serious problems like directory problems (overlapping extent allocation files etc.), data loss, and a crashing HDD.
Finally, be sure you have a good backup of everything you cannot afford to lose. Cloning your entire internal HDD to an external Firewire HDD using a utility like http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html (Carbon Copy Cloner) or http://shirtpocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html (SuperDuper) is always a good policy, but especially important in your case.
Good luck.
cornelius
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