Available space on firewire 800 graid incorrect

I have been working in FCP 4.5 HD for the past year and a half. The drive in question has been with me through the worst of it.
It is a 500 GB g-tech raid Firewire 800 drive. When I Get Info on the drive, Mac OS 10.4 tells me it has 68.19 GB of available space. When I get summary info for the drive's entire contents, it says it is 308.53 GB. With an actual capacity of 465.65 GB, the math doesn't add up. 465.65 - 308.53 = 157.12
I've got the same drive with the same media on it on another system and the "Available space" is what I would expect it to be. I've run disk utility and disk warrior (to rebuild the directory) on the drive, and it's always the same.
I though it might be a fragmentation issue, but since mac os defragments as it goes, I'm not quite sure what to hypothesize.
Any ideas?

i was afraid some one was going to say that. I ran disk warrior. I haven't worked with it extensively, so if it goes beyond just rebuilding the directory or scavenging for lost files, I wouldn't know how to specifically target the catalog & b-trees.
I'm afraid this might be a backup and reformat situation.
I appreciate the input.

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