HD says full, but is not

Mac G5 (pre-Intel) w/ OSX 10.5.6
Says HD is full. It can't be! Deleted everything but 5g of programs, and 44g of music on a 150g HD.
When I leave it on, the HD "becomes full."
Several genius bar visits, backed up to ext. HD... still happens.
Am I missing something? A setting somewhere?
<Edited by Moderator>

I am not using FileVault, but I DO visit a lot of Scandinavian pornsites.
Just kidding (but not really).
This problem acts like a downloaded virus that gives false readings about HD space.
Is there no way to go in and view things like scraps of edited videos and such like I can on a Win machine? I think if I could just llok at the HD, I could see what is "filling" it.
But I can't even run utilities: disk erase because the temp file fails to write.

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