Major HD problem (not a re-post)

Two days ago, I received a message saying the my HD was full and I needed to delete some files. I hardly use my computer for anything but surfing the net, AIM, and iTunes. The only files I have are music and pictures.
I posted a thread about this and I got a suggestion to install WhatSize which would tell me where and what file is so large on my HD, and it turned out to be a log file. But since I have no valuable data on my HD, and I wanted to make sure this wouldnt happen again, I erased my HD and reinstalled OS X yesterday morning.
Then at about 8 pm yesterday, I received the same message. I used WhatSize again, but when I added up the used GB of the files shown on WhatSize, it only turned out to be 20 GB, which should have left me with 35 GB at least!
I erased my HD again this morning, and reinstalled Mac OS X. and a couple hours ago, I got the same alert. I've gone to disk utility and verified my disk and tried repairing it, but it said that it needed no repairing.
HELP! I already tried using the Install Mac OS X installation disk to repair my startup disk.

What should be in the /Volumes folder are aliases (what appear in OS X as aliases, anyway) to your hard drive and any other mounted volumes. Nothing else should be there.
Apparently, if something like limewire is downloading to an external drive and the drive is unplugged without dismounting, the downloaded files can end up in the /Volumes folder. I think WhatSize will not see the space taken up by those files. I don't recognize the files you mentioned.
But that would be a different problem from the log file you said had grown large before, unless the log file was logging errors due to the screwed up downloads.

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