Finder shows wrong disk space (Time Machine turned off)

Hi,
I have a disk space issue with my Mid '11 MacBook Air. The actual free space in my Hard Drive is much more than the space what Finder reports.
After trying almost everything i knew (Turned off Time Machine, used Disk Utility/DaisyDisk/OmniDiskSweeper), I have no success so it is starting to be annoying.
Here is the result of the du -chxd 1 / command (as root):
bash-3.2# du -chxd 1 /
258M          /.DocumentRevisions-V100
18M          /.fseventsd
577M          /.Spotlight-V100
  0B          /.Trashes
  0B          /.vol
8.3G          /Applications
2.6M          /bin
  0B          /cores
4.5K          /dev
1.0K          /home
12K          /Incompatible Software
4.6G          /Library
8.0K          /lost+found
1.0K          /net
  0B          /Network
185M          /opt
4.8G          /private
988K          /sbin
5.2G          /System
53G          /Users
437M          /usr
4.0K          /Volumes
77G          /
77G          total
The Finder says i have only 23 GB of free space:
If anyone have some idea what to check, please share it.
Thanks in advance
Peter

There may be a directory problem.  Try Verifying your SSD, per #6 in Using Disk Utility.

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