Mountain Lion Adding over 100 Gb of misc disk space to Disk Utility Image

I've been building 10.8 images for my company. I've been building them on a Mac mini with 8gb of ram running 10.8. Attached to the mini is an external hard drive, connected via 800 firewire. The hard drive has a couple of partitions in it, including a 200 GB "sandbox" partition that I use to create the builds. The builds include MS Office 2011 for Mac, and a couple different versions of CS 5.5 and CS 6. After I create the builds I image the partition to be used later. Using this simple technique, a few months ago I created and imaged 4 different builds using 10.7, Mac for Office and CS 5.5. The completed compressed images ranged in size from about 7 GB to 10 GB.
This past week, I used the same process to build 4 different images using OS X 10.8, MS Office and CS 6 Suite. It wasn't until I suddenly ran out of hard drive space during compression, that I noticed that each of the completed images for 10.8 were roughly 100 GB in size. I can't figure out why these new builds are five times the size of the old ones. The actual programs don't differ that much in terms of software versions and size. I've tried running permissions on the new build. I've tried erasing free space. Nothing. When booted to the image, nothing shows up out of the ordinary in Grand Perspective. However, when I boot off a different partition, then analyze the sandbox partition, GP shows all identifyable programs using about 19 GB of space. There is also a huge gray box it refers to as "146 GB of used space."
It appears that when Disk Utility creates an image from the build on the sandbox partition, its treating the 146 GB of mystery space as if it was actual used space, and builds a humongous dmg. GP doesn't let me delete the space, nor does it identify it's location. I've only run into this once before, on an OS X server where backup software was creating a hidden cached file that grew exponentially. This time around, I'm at a loss. Anyone run into this issue?

i was going to combine these screenshots into a single file but i literally have 0bytes of space left on this hard drive so i obviously cant
this is exciting!
and then about 10 minutes later...
and then about 10 minutes later...
and then about 10 minutes later...
and then about 10 minutes later...
and then about 10 minutes later...
so those are the processes that were running and thats how much they changed in 10 minutes!
Who murdered my hard drive space- where were they doing it, how'd they do it and why!
It's a true mystery!

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