10.5.2 Update and Available Files Space Error

OK, I as read some of the posts I have a new problem under 10.5.2 update. Prior to running software update I had almost 120 gb free on my iMac 20 (last years model) After downloading, the update FAILED as it indicated i had only 300mb free and the update requires 1.3 gb. It rebooted anyway and after coming back up I still only have a faction (1.5gb) free of disk free. I knew this couldnt be true and using both the terminal DU command a using a utility called 'WhatSize' I confirmed I am only using 100gb of my 250 gb drive. I tried a repair using disk utility yet nothing. It almost appears the FS journaling is wrong or something. Any suggestion on how to get my disk reporting the right amount of space and applying the update?
Many Thanks

I wanted to post an update on my own thread for a general sharing of information.
First, I ran a number of things to determine the delta. I ran the Verify Disk Utility--Result No change.
As I stated ran both the DU command and the "WhatSize" Utility, both indicating only 101gb used...
Finally decided to call AppleCare. After being on hold for the first 20 min and then dealing with a guy who did help at all for another 20 min, I was put back on hold for another 30min. The next person I spoke with had me try a few thigns (such as create a new 'Admin' Account and see how much Available disk space was showing under that account' Same amount....Finally he told me ai needed to do an 'Archive and Install' Well after rebooting into the Leopard DVD it woudl not allow that as I didnt have enough Disk Space. He then suggested backing the Users directory up and doing an Erase and Install. Not being overly fond of that I decided to do some additional research on my own.
Recognizing the 10.5 is really UNIX underneath, there had to be other ways to verify the root File System. recalling back from many years ago, I recalled a command similar to the Windows Chkdsk, called Fschk. Looking up how to run on MAC OS X i determined I could in fact boot into single user mode.
Geting to the command line, I ran the command to no avail....Drive still should only 1.5 gb free. and no errors running that command. HOWEVER>.........
If I now ran the DU command to 1 depth level '-d1' it showed my the Users folder at 224gb (different then the 58gb run when in my own admin account'
After some further digging I discovered a 119gb file under another account and specifically appeared tied to the iDisk of that account. I was unable to 'remove' the file and I didnt want to change the UNIX permissions to access it so I rebooted, and opened that specific account. Upon login it started a process that indicated it was Compacting the iDisk.Sparsebundle account....after about 10 min---the file was compacted and viola...back to my 126gb free.
So, what I determined is that this account was in fact logged in while System Update was run on the Admin account. During the update and reboot it didnt properly shut that account down and the iDisk seemed to grow exponentially....
bottom line: I fixed the problem with some more thorough investigation and WITHOUT a Erase and Install as recommended by AppleCare...that seems to have been the easy way out for them and would have been the hard way out for me having to reinstall all my apps etc. Since MAC OS is really unix there are so many ways to fix things without reinstalling...How many people really reinstall UNIX in production environments at the littlest problems....
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