Hard Drive Display Info Wrong

I set my HD's both internal & external to display on the desktop/Finder below the HD icons the amount of free space available. Both display what is supposed to be the amount of GB used and the GB amount free. The amount displayed free is way off! To get the correct reading/figures I need to "Get Info" from the File menu on each of the hard drives. Is this explainable?
iMac 24" 2.33 Intel Mac OS X (10.4.7)

"The amount displayed free is way off!"
I believe you may be seeing a truncated readout, with "...." in between two series of numbers, however there is not enough room to completely display both series. In that case, the second series replaces the whole numbers with "...." and leaves you looking at the decimal point and the numbers that would usually be seen following the decimal point. For example: a small HD might read out as "37.14 GB. 22.12 GB free" while a larger HD might show as "250.12 GB. ... .12 GB free" when the actual free space may be 175.12 GB.
It is possible that you can defeat this by trying to change the "Text size" setting at the "View" pull-down selection for "Show View Options" - if changing the setting once does not do the trick, for some very strange reason selecting a number of different settings appears to eventually straighten out the issue. I must tell you that I haven't a clue why this works. All I know is that lots of computer stuff can be made to work with a little fiddling:)) Please let us know whether or not you can get this thing unstuck by doing that.

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