Available HDD space is 40MB only - brand new Air

Hi
I just got my Air today (80G HDD model) and I found that finder says that space available is only 40M. (not G, but M) When I try software update, the Finder says I need to delete some files...
With activity monitor, they say the used portion is only for 15G but only 40M is available.
With Disk Utility it says 58.2G is available out of 74.2GB.
Is there any one who encountered this similar issue?

Dear tele_player,
Thanks for your suggestion. The result is the same - WhatSize also thinks whole disk space is only 15G and space is 8M (decreased from 40M as I donwloaded WhatSize) so consistent with what Finder says.
No new finding, no new solution unfortunately.
And what happened was after downloading WhatSize, I tried to reboot, then it keeps on trying to boot up but never reach to Finder, but do self-restart over and over and over again. I needed to force sht down after all. Safeboot does not work either.
So I would not recommend anyone to download anything into this small 40M available space...
I guess I need to run to Apple Store...

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