Drastic drop in HD used space after reboot

So I just rebooted my computer after about 4 days of keeping it on (putting it to sleep when not in use), and my hard drive space dropped significantly. Before the reboot, I cleaned my system cache and had 30.70 GB used (according to MenuMeters), and after reboot I had 30.57GB used. That's a drop of about 130MB over a reboot. The last time I rebooted was after the latest security patch on Aug 1. The reboot took a significantly longer time than usual (usually takes about 5 seconds for shutdown without even loading the wheel, about 27 spins of the wheel on bootup, this time it took about 7 or 8 spins of the wheel on shutdown, and about 30 on bootup). Should I be concerned? Can anyone explain what happened? Over the 4 days, all I did was check e-mail, surf the web, and use MSN.

Actually, I'm a bit of a security nut. I know that some viruses (at least in the past) have worked by flooding your HD with crap and thereby not let you do things that use virtual memory or install any programs, and make your comp run overall really slowly. When I first installed MenuMeters, I noticed my HD space would fill even when I wasn't writing to it myself (not substantially, but 10+ MB at any given time). I asked Apple about this and they explained it was system cache files. Thus, to safeguard (or at least to make myself feel safer), I clean these folders once in a while to make sure something like that isn't happening to me. Of course, I know that if it did, I'd probably know instantly and couldn't really do anything about it anyway, but it makes me feel warm and cuddly inside.
And in case you're wondering why I'm so paranoid on one of the most secure OSes out there, I'm an ex-Windows and ex-Ubuntu user. Both OSes gave me issues on fresh installs (I'm talking fresh, like literally doing nothing but format, install, install drivers, and get system updates), so I trust nothing now. So far, though, I've been using Mac for 6 months and nothing serious has arisen *crosses fingers* so I'm trying to be a bit less paranoid, but it's hard when it's been almost a year since I chucked Windows and I'm kinda in that mindset.

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Actually, now it's also some other keys plus the shift key. Shift-V doesn't work, neither does Shift-Left Curly Bracket.
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