Won't Partition After Defrag w/ 14 gig free

So here is a conundrum for you:
I am trying to install windows on my mac and the darn HD wont partition.
This is after running iDefrag and deleting a whole bunch of crap on my computer to give me 14 GB of free space.
Please help because I cant take the windows software back and I dont want to waste all that money I just spent on it.

Each time you create and remove, you don't gain back what you had.
Boot Camp Assistant looks for a single unfragmented free space to use, it can't be 20GB here, 15GB there to get 33GB (2GB overhead).
And, SuperDuper when it restores a fresh copy, all the files and directories are organized together, temp files are skipped, free space is in one large unfragmented chunk.
IF you ONLY have 14GB of free space, which is probably accurate in and of itself, that is a separate issue, but very very real. If you take 10GB for XP you do not want to be left with 2-4GB (unless the drive was only 40GB to begin with.... maybe). HFS+ is almost fragile when it comes to quotas (lack of) and directory maintenance.

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