ITunes Library.itl file vanished, my solution cost me 20GB of disk space

I have a G4 PowerBook running OSX 10.5.8 with iTunes 10.6.3.  Yesterday when I opened iTunes it said it needed to create an iTunes Library.itl file.  When it was done most of my music and playlists did not show in iTunes.  I restored a day-old iTunes folder, with the .itl file, from my time machine backup and everything worked. But, where I previously had 89GB available on my drive I now have only 68GB available.  I have no idea where the extra 20GB is.  I did a complete erase and restore and all is fine but I still have only 68GB available.  The Time Machine backup was from before the errors and it shows 89GB available.  Can anyone point me to where I might have lost 21GB of disk space?
Thank you,

I originally got the same error as shown at the start of this thread: 
https://discussions.apple.com/message/5253249#5253249

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