Hard Drive Trouble on New MacPro

Hello I have had my MacPro desktop for about 4 days now and am having some problems.
There is a 250 gb harddrive in my system and I when I get info the capacity shows as 232.57. I could have sworn it used to say 250gb.
Also on my desktop when I select view options and select "show item info" so it displays the hard drive info with the name it reads:
232.57 GB,....14 GB free
The useful info is missing, I thought it was just truncated but who would care to see how much is remaining after the decimal. However, when I put in a custom desktop icon the information was back to: 232.57 GB, 219.25 free. I thought the problem was partly fixed but now it is displaying strangely again.
When I was installing photoshop it said I only had 4gb available on this drive.
Could someone please help me as to why this information is not displaying properly.
Thanks

Thanks for the replies... I actually have the font size the smallest it goes. This info used to show up properly (I know that for sure). Like I mentioned earlier when I changed the icon to a custom one (cmd + I and paste the image on top of the previous icon in) The info returned to displaying properly, then after a few minutes it returned back to this "corrupted" state.
I have tried changing the icon again, toggle show file info on and off, restarting, adjusting the font size and even went to the extreme measures of reinstalling the OS sine this computer is still pretty empty being so new. Perhaps I am missing something here but this has me confused.
Thanks

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