Help with missing HD space please

I have a powerbook with the 1.67GHz G4.
I was deleting free space in the Disk Utility program from my main(only) HD. I recall that when i started the procedure i had about 20GB free space on the drive. Well, i tried the 7-times over write option, but after about and hour or so i had to do some other things on the computer and canceled the program.
After this my computer started giving me out of space warnings and i checked and now my computer has about 500MB of free space.
I can only assume that some temporary file that was supposed to be deleted at the end of the wipe was not deleted and is now hogging space on my drive. A cursory look at the file sizes of folders in my root directory via the finder didnt show anything untoward.
Any ideas what is the solution to getting my space back?
I ran repair permissions and verify disk and the space is still gone

*I can only assume that some temporary file that was supposed to be deleted at the end of the wipe was not deleted and is now hogging space on my drive. A cursory look at the file sizes of folders in my root directory via the finder didnt show anything untoward.*
It might be a hidden file.
You can look in the terminal for files bigger then 24meg or so.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
sudo find / -size +50000 -exec ls -lh {} \;
enter your logon password & I assume you are running as administrator.
This will give you a few errors when you scan the /dev directory. I'd disconnect any external harddrives.
man find
for details.
You can also use whatsize to find large files.
WhatSize is a simple tool that allows the user to quickly measure the size in bytes of a given folder and all subfolders and files within it. You would be surprised at to how many useless files might be laying around on your hard disks. The files and folders are automatically sorted by size, with the biggest sizes first. See:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13006/
Also...
Monolingual is a program for removing unnecessary language resources from Mac OS X,in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space. It requires at least Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) and also works on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). It worked for me on 10.4
http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/
A detailed write-up on how to use Monolingual:
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/monolingual.html
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