Hard Disk Suddenly Full

My hard disk has suddenly filled up leaving less than 2 gb available - it was over 20gb on Friday.
I have used checked out my HD using WhatSize and there are no giant files that I can see. It lists my HD as using about 16.8gb in total.
I have read many of the previous topics and my problem would seem to be in the VM area - the activity monitor gives this at 5.7gb
My question is how do I do something about it?
Thanks in advance.
Powerbook G4 12inch Mac OS X (10.4.7)
Powerbook G4 12inch Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Dear Thomas,
Thank you for your reply again and yes the support of a cyber friend is much appreciated.
I thought i had included the screenshot but when I now look at my last post I see the address on my computer for the screenshot but not the image itself. I have tried it with this post also but I can not seem to include a tiff file. Is there something special I need to do to send a tiff image?
I did check the hard drive with WhatSize which gave me the results already posted.
I am the only user of the computer. I have displayed hidden files but could see nothing very large to account for the missing memory.
I am a little cautious of making a backup of the hard drive on my external drive in case something hidden would be transferred to that drive. I know that is unlikely to happen but I will keep searching a while longer before before reinstalling.
I am doing another WhatSize scan to see what comes up. If I get any different results I will post again.
Best wishes and thanks for the support,
Denis
Powerbook G4 12inch Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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