ICloud says I used more space than I actually do

Hi,
When I look in the pereferences of iCloud it says I used 3,77gb of the 5gb. When I look in "manage" the screen tells me I used not more than 1,5gb. what's happend?
Ramon

I've searched everywhere too for a solution and I finally caved in and restored my phone after backing up all of my photos to iPhoto. It's a pain, but it freed up about 6GB on my phone.
My device:
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