Lightroom 3 using disk space fast - on C - images & catalogue stored elsewhere

Everyt time I uselight room, particularly in combination with CS 5 to stitch a mosaic or panorama, the disk space on my C drive is reduced by several gigs. My images are stored on Drive D and the catalogue is stored on Drive P. I am talking about gigs at a time.
What is using the sapce. i've looked in temp folders and on every folder on the C drive and can find no large temp files. If LR 3 and CS 5 are doing this, should they not delete the files on exit and if the aren't where are they or what else is eating up my disk space.
Typically my stitches are made up of 10 to 40 files.
If anyone has an answer, please let me know.
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Greg

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