Disk space being filled rapidly and only cleared upon restart. what's up?

hey,
yesterday my macbook pro gave me a disk space error, which i get occasionally because my hard drive is usually pretty full. I try to keep at least 7gb free though, and yesterday i knew that didn't make sense.
turns out my hard drive is being filled really quickly with "something". not very consistantly. sometimes the disk usage in the activity monitor stays consistant, sometimes it moves slowly. and sometimes it will fill mb's a second. it's rediculous. then everything will slow way down and make any sort of troubleshooting really difficult, so i have to to force shut down the computer, and start it up. i then will have 3-5 gb free again, and it's anywhere from 5-30 minutes before it'll start filling again. i'm trying to find associations to applications or anything, and have been looking up log issues and whatnot - to no avail. i used diskinventory to see the space used, and it strangely brought up 66 gb used vs the 70 something i saw in finder and activity monitor.
any ideas? this is making work really inconvenient on here, needless to say.
thanks,
luke

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