Don't understand why I keep running out of disk space on hard drive.

I keep getting warnings about using up the hard disk space, and I can't understand why.
I have a small number of documents, no fancy applications, and about 2 gb of photos and 2 gb of iTunes music. I used to have many more photos, and more documents, and used to have easily 2-3 gb spare on the 55gb hard drive.
I have emptied the trash on every account, and have deleted just about every email.
Each new day that I logon, the available disk space dwindles back down to mere kb.
It's like something is squeezing out my available memory.
Any suggestions, please? Does this sound viral??
Thank you.

Hi Robert,
first of all: WELCOME TO THE DISCUSSIONS!
You should start with some system maintenance: Mac OS X 10.3/10.4: System maintenance. Temporary or Cache files can get corrupted and then grow until they fill the disk. In case you use Toast check if the temp file was deleted after you burnt.
Back in the days of Panther there was also a common problem with the drivers of a game-controller. Sorry, can't remember the name but if you installed a game controller recently you should update it's driver.

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