Finder showing terrible available size

First the computer ran out of disk space on a 500 GB MacBook Pro. Searching the harddrive, I discovered 250 gigabytes worth of Apple log files. I deleted them. The available disk space did not change.
I then rebooted the computer off a Lion Boot disk (yes you can make one) and ran Disk Utility, it found errors on the drive with the deleted file record and cleaned them.
Now when I start up, Lion reports "830 GB available" in the status bar! 330 more than the capicity of the harddrive! Any tips to fixing this? I've tried running disk/permissions repair in Disk Utility, but no change. Also tried copying/deleting/moving files in the hopes that would correct the issue. No change.

Turn off Time Machine in its preference pane. Wait a few seconds, then turn it back on. You may need to relaunch the Finder or log out to see the effect.

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Re: Hard drive available space shown incorrectly in finder Jan 12, 2012 7:35 PM (in response to ilari Korte)
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