Erratic leopard - disk full - oh no its not!

performance on my Macbook Pro is becoming increasingly erratic since loading Leopard. Currenty third part software such as Quark and Word can't save documents because I'm told they can't be found; and I keep getting a message saying my start-up disc has too many files and its nearly full: it doesn't and it isn't
Should I reload leopard again – this will be the third time - or is there a smarter way of finding out what's happening
Thanks
BB

Have you done the usual disk check and file permissions verify/repair using DU?
I am assuming both Word and Quark are the latest Leopard compatible versions.
When you say you save a document and it can't be found, I do not understand. When you retrieve a document I can understand it not being found, but saving it? What does that mean, can't be found?
Where are you saving the documents to? Where is the default locations? It may be that Leopard has changed the file structure and you need to determine where they are now being saved to.
What is the message you get about too many files at startup? Is that a Leopard message? Or from some other software?
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