Finder Does NOT List Files on FireWire Volume

I have a 80GB LaCie FireWire drive but haven't used if for about a year.
I just plugged it into my Mac and the Finder lists NO files on this volume. "Get Info" says there 67.8 of files on the volume. Disk Utility says the same as well as indicating that there are 12 folders and 49 files. Terminal shows this:
Macintosh:Scratch nello$ ls -sa1lp
total 32
0 drwxr-xr-x 12 nello nello 476 Jul 27 13:54 ./
0 drwxrwxrwt@ 9 root admin 306 Jul 27 14:09 ../
16 -rw-r--r--@ 1 nello nello 6148 Jul 27 13:59 .DS_Store
0 drwxr-xr-x@ 3 nello nello 102 Jul 27 13:54 .Spotlight-V100/
0 drwxr-xr-x@ 3 nello nello 102 Feb 6 2007 .TemporaryItems/
0 drwxr-xr-x@ 3 nello nello 102 Sep 13 2007 .Trashes/
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 nello nello 0 Jul 27 13:54 .com.apple.timemachine.supported
0 drwxr-xr-x 7 nello nello 238 Jul 27 14:09 .fseventsd/
8 -rw-r--r--@ 1 nello nello 1024 Mar 24 2007 Desktop DB
8 -rw-r--r--@ 1 nello nello 2 Mar 24 2007 Desktop DF
So, this seems rather inconsistent to me. "Get Info" says there is more data on the disk than Terminal. Disk utility says there are more folders and files than Terminal.
When I used Disk Utility to "Verify Disk" everything looks okay:
Verify and Repair volume “Scratch”
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Scratch appears to be OK.
I swear that I left an iMovie project on this disk. How can I get Finder to show it to me?
Can anyone explain the apparent inconsistencies between Finder/Terminal/"Get Info"?
Thanks.
- nello

I'm not sure what you believe to be inconsistent here. some of the items listed are directories and their contents are not listed. if you want to list it all enter
du -ah

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