HD space disappearing

so, over the past couple of weeks the free space on my hard drive has been disappearing. I have 60 gigs on my hard drive. Three days ago i had 4.78 free, and now I have 600 mb. I have been downloading using azureus, but i have my preferences set to download directly onto the external drive (I have a 250 gig external drive and most of my files have been moved to there). Most of the files that remain on my hard drive are small documents, I have a small itunes library and a photo library (2.27 gig and 741.2 mb respectively). I will admit that i have a fairly large documents folder and desktop, (7.84 and 5.69 respectively) but nothing that i can think of that would fill up my space like this. It seems that when I download with azureus it fills up my hard drive, but i cannot find any of the files on my hard drive, they all exist, as they should, on my external drive. I should add that now it seems that even when i am not connected to the internet my space disappears, I am now at 540 mb!!!
I have already repaired the permissions on my HD and done some cleaning with OnyX... so i am at a loss...
Could i have a virus??
I am doing a scan with clamxav right now but it has not as yet come up with anything.
My next plan is to move everything i want onto the external and do a complete reinstall, does this seem logical??? I don't really look forward to this!!

If you're comfortable in Terminal:
1. Launch Terminal from: >Appications > Utilities
2. Enter this command (you can just copy and paste):
sudo du -cxhd 1 /
Hit return, then type your password (it is not echoed to the screen so type carefully) and hit return again. If you have never used the "super user do" command before you'll get a friendly little lecture.
This will display a list of all folders at the root level of the drive with their size in Bytes, Kilobytes, Megabytes and Gigabytes. This may take a while, be patient.
Look for very large folders.
Joe

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OS: Lion v10.7
1. I installed Windows 7 in my mac. The space of Windows partition is 80G.
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I have a G3 PowerBook running OS X 10.2.8. I've noticed that my disk space disappears for some unexplained reason, although it does seem to happen most often after my daughter has been playing games on disney.com. Does anyone know how to pinpoint where the disk space is going, and more importantly, how to get it back? I've got an external hard disk and have moved lost of programs off of my Mac, but the gains are short-lived.
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Name : SHADUSMEDIA
Type : Volume
Disk Identifier : disk1s1
Mount Point : /Volumes/SHADUSMEDIA
File System : Windows NT Filesystem (NTFS-3G)
Connection Bus : USB
Device Tree : IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/USB7@1D,7
Writable : Yes
Capacity : 298.1 GB (320,070,288,384 Bytes)
Free Space : 68.3 GB (73,348,239,360 Bytes)
Used : 229.8 GB (246,722,048,512 Bytes)
Number of Files : 145,472
Number of Folders : 0
Owners Enabled : Yes
Can Turn Owners Off : No
Can Repair Permissions : No
Can Be Verified : Yes
Can Be Repaired : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : No
Supports Journaling : No
Journaled : No
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 1
You can see on there it says I've used 229.8 GB, when I've actually only used 194.12 GB. Here are the specs from System Profiler for my iMac:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM51.0090.B09
SMC Version: 1.8f2
Serial Number: QP6450GKVUX
I'm running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6. If you need any more information just ask, I'd really like to get my 30GB back. Thanks in advance.

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