Migration Assistant Reporting Negative Gigabytes!

I was trying to transfer two user accounts, along will all applications from a MacBook Pro (Core Duo) to another MBP (Core 2 Duo). Migration Assistant reported that one of the users had a -180Gb of data, and wouldn't permit the process to proceed. If I ignore that user, and transfer everything else, all info igrates perfectly. If I go back after the fact and try again, same results when I try to transfer the data for the "Negative Gigabyte" User Account, which has roughly 40Gb worth of data.
I started the old Mac with DriveGenius, and replaced the directory thinking that this was causing a problem. Same result when I tried again.
Any thoughts on what's going on?
Thanks
--Mitch

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leo3101: yes
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