Finder showing inaccurate HDD usage - Terminal conflict

Hi
We have 6 iMacs (10.5.8) and Mac OS X Server. Two of the iMacs have started showing 'start up disk almost full'. E.g. in the Finder window for one, it states 802MB left. On the same machine I've used Finder to work out where all the memory is being used so I can go ahead and delete stuff - but there is only about 100GB accounted for in total (from 297GB). I ran sudo du -hxd1/ in Terminal which shows that the folder /Users is using 195GB but Finder is telling me that this is only using 4.33GB. So I think I've found where all the memory is but even unhiding reveals nothing I can work on. Users are created via Workgroup Manager on the Server. I believe some of the users may have been deleted on individual machines later but that hasn't deleted their space too.
Any help will be most appreciated!
Many thanks

Has the Trash been emptied?
How much free space is on the HD, where has all the space gone?
OmniDiskSweeper is likely the easiest/best, and is now free...
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/download/
And if needed, you can use Terminal to run it in admin mode to see files/folders your user can't see...
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how_to_recover_missing_hard_drive_space/

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