232 GB internal drive - can't be right

My brother, who has a 2ghz MBP with 1GB RAM (2x512) was having problems opening an iMovie project and called me up for help. While guiding him through the process of repairing permissions, I noticed that his internal drive was being reported as 232 GB?
Actually, since we did this over the phone, I only "noticed" this oddity when he offhandedly mentioned that Disk Util said the drive was 232GB. I said "huh... what is did you say?", "are you sure your external drive isn't hooked up?", "could you check again?" I had him shutdown and unplug everything from his computer except the power chord. I had him restart (multiple times). And I made him re-check it in disk utilities 4 times (and also through "get info").
Obviously this is impossible as there are no 232GB internal SATA drives on the market, and he got his MacBook direct from the Apple Store and the only custom config he did was to have them add 512 of RAM at the store.
Any ideas what might be going on???? Any suggestions???
=======================Background info=================
Earlier in the day he was working iMovie, using an external drive, lost all his work and had to start over and recreate the project (saving to his internal HD). At some point that started acting up and he called me for help (he could not open the file).
I discovered he was saving his iMovie Project to the root of his Macintosh HD, so I had him move it to the "Movies" folder (within his username), and then guided him through repairing permissions. This solved his immediate problem, and he was able to launch iMovie and open the project.
It was while we repaired the permissions that we discovered the 232GB issue for his internal drive.
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Actually 232 GB is not an uncommon formatted capacity for a 250 GB hard drive, due to the issues listed in this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30065
However, since the largest laptop hard drive on the market is currently 160 GB (200 GB is being reported as coming out in 2nd half of 2006 by several news media sources), I agree that something is messed up with the partition table, or directory.

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