GB's Disappearing and DVD drive no longer works

I am having a problem after installing Leopard. I installed it and it worked perfectly for a day. I did nothing more than create a few word documents and my storage on my internal hard drive fell from 36 gb left to 18.6 gb left. I restarted my Mac Book Pro and I am now showing 23.45 gb, so I magically got some of the space back, but not all of it. I have tried deleting things off my hard drive and they show a difference in the gb count, but then go back around 23 no matter how much I delete. I checked to make sure time machine wasn't backing up on my local drive and it isn't. I have checked the disk using the disk utility. I have check for viruses using Symantec. Any ideas. Also my DVD player when you insert a DVD just spits it out. Not sure what to do about that either - any help would be much appreciated.

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