Hard Drive fills up and I can't find what is filling it

I have twice in the last month received a warning that my hard drive was very full and I should move some files. I had abou 300 MB free. The first time it did this I cleared it until I had about 11 G free. I was careful to quickly move files after that.
When it happened last week, I didn't have much I could remove, so I cleared out Garageband and some other items and cleared 6G.
I decided to do a new install of Tiger and first backed up the files by moving them into a folder on my LaCie hard drive. When I moved everything from the hard drive, it amounted to only 10.5 G.
I re-installed using the archive system rather than a clean re-install. My reason for this is that I have one Classic Application (Adobe Pagemill) which I still use and I didn't want to lose the capacity to use Classic.
Today I did a disk repair -- a couple of trees needed fixing -- but the outcome was still that I had only 5.6 G free on a 38.5G drive. I can account for 10 so that would mean there are about 25 G of stuff that I can't account for or find to dump.
Can anyone help me?

Hi, Sheila —
Edit: Great news! SInce I'd already written this when I saw your 2nd post, I thought I'd post it anyway, as it includes a couple of other suggestions...
(1) You may find Dr. Smoke's Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk FAQ useful.
(2) What about "invisible" files? Many folks facing problems like you describe eventually discover just how much space is taken up by invisible files — not accessible by Finder — and that some of them may be unnecessary. For example, if you've ever used Norton Antivirus, it may have have created spacesuckingfile.xxxxxx — a huge (and hidden) file that you'd definitely want to "seek-and destroy." (This article tells how.)
The 3rd-party utilities WhatSize or OmniDiskSweeper can help you to identify "invisible" files that may be using a lot of disk capacity — but, if you don't know what something is/does, please don't delete it. Post back for help.
Anyway, my guess is that between (1) and (2), you'll be able to "clean house" pretty well...
(3) Btw, I'm confused why you'd think that an erase & install process would preclude your using Classic... would you please explain the basis for that idea?
HTH! and
Warm regards,
Dean
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