20Gb of Hard Drive space is unnacounted for

Something is consuming 20 GB of hard drive space on my basically out of the box 60Gb iBook G4 with Tiger that I can't account for. The only thing that's been added is MS Office and about 1Gb of files. The hardware profiler claims 39Gb used of 56Gb, but if I Get-Info on the hard drive or files on the drive they never add up to more than about 19Gb used. I tried WhatSize and it also confirms only about 19Gb used on the whole drive. Any suggesting how I can find out what's taking up the other 20Gb? How much space does the factory installation of Tiger take up?
Thanks in advance for any hints you can provide.

Are you using FileVault?
You can use WhatSize to see what files are taking up the space.

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