Which one upgrade would work best?

I'm running 10.4.11 on an iMac FP G4 700 mhz, 512 mb, 40GB drive. I've been getting lots of application not responding, spinning beach balls, email slow to show up in mailboxes, choppy video, etc. Short of buying a new computer, I was debating what one thing I could try that might fix some of this. I could buy additional RAM to bring it up to 1 GB, get a faster internet connection (currently 5 mb cable, could go to 10 mb), or continue in my painful efforts to free more hard drive space (currently about 6 GB free). I'd appreciate it if anyone could comment on this. Thanks.

A RAM increase is about all you can do. With only 512MB RAM, the system is using hard drive space for virtual RAM, which causes slowness. The choppy video is caused by your processor speed, bus speed and the limitations of your graphics card. My 1.25GHz G4 MDD model barely syncs the video & audio. I don't think increasing your internet speed will help materially.
Look at these links
Mac Tune-up: 34 Software Speedups
http://www.macworld.com/article/49489/2006/02/softwarespeed.html
52 Ways to Speed Up OS X
http://www.imafish.co.uk/articles/post/articles/130/52-ways-to-speed-up os-x/
Tuning Mac OS X Performance
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/performance.html
11 Ways to Optimize Your Mac's Performance
http://lowendmac.com/eubanks/07/0312.html
The Top 7 Free Utilities To Maintain A Mac.
http://mac360.com/index.php/mac360/comments/thetop_7_free_utilities_to_maintain_amac/
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607640
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