Disk Utility shows Used greater than Capacity?

I have a Smartdisk 80GB Firelite that is partitioned and erased, yet in disk utility it shows 74.4GB Capacity, 74.4GB Available, and 34.6GB Used. That doesn't make any sense at all. How can I get the used space back to Zero?

Yes, I've used Disk Utility to partition. I've done 1 partition, 2 partitions, 16 partitions, I've partitioned as Unix then back to Mac OS. When I had 16 partitions there were about 4.5 GBs per partition and it would say 20.4 GBs used on a 4.5 GB partition, this is the readout at the bottom of Disk Utility when you click on the drive. I've ran repair disk and everything is okay. I've ran Disk Warrior and everything is okay. It's very strange, my 80gb Firelite drive is completely empty, no data, it's been erased and partitioned a number of times and Disk Utility still says it has Used GBs, when it should be close to zero.

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