Two machines saving the same file as different sizes?

My coworker and I both have the same version of Illustratir (CS6) and both use Lion on iMacs, but today noticed something weird. He saved a file similar to a file I had done before as both an eps and a pdf and his file size was more than twice what my file sizes usually are. I thought it was odd, so I copied everything from his file into a new file (same dimensions) and saved out an eps and pdf (default settings), and like I thought, my files were less than half the size of his.
Why would two machines be saving identical files at different sizes? Is there a setting somewhere I'm missing? Everything in the file is vector, if it matters. There's not even any editable text.

See the mechanism of saving here: http://superuser.com/questions/66825/what-is-the-difference-between-size-and-size-on-disk
The size of the "blocks" depends on the size of the disk and how it's been formatted.

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> machines have Dreamweaver on them. When one desktop
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course) open the same
> file
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come back to a file,
> and
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do with the
> latest
> version of Plugin Labs menu extension, but now I'm
thinking it has
> something to
> do with Dreamweaver's handling of the files. Has anybody
else experienced
> problems in a similar situation. I find myself
constantly backing up
> entire
> site files to a zip folder just in case everything blows
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> it.
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overwrites the
> backed up
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