IBook G4 Harddrive eating itself....

Traded for an iBook G4 (1.33, 60GB HD, etc)-I did an archive and install of Tiger with a retail version in order to salvage some programs HD. After do the re-install I noticed that the HD was almost full. I took a look around and found 5 previous installations so I deleted them all, since they seemed to be just OS installations. Odd, I thought. I also did a Trash empty that turned up over 200k items. Odd, also. That freed up 35GB of HD space. Figured that had been part of the problem, no one had ever emptied the trash.
Since then I am still having kernel panics and just plain shutdowns and even keyboard weirdness. Played with it some today and found that the HD had filled back up to 45GB or so in just an hour or two. BTW, the HD passes all the repair diagnostics.
What would be causing the HD to just fill up rapidly like that? I might have to do a complete re-install anyway, to heck with the programs I will lose.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
JB

I suppose, but that would be an awful lot of messages....
I bit the bullet and did the erase and install, tired of messing with it.
JB

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