Mountain Lion disk space

Hi,
Since installing Mountain Lion i have been havimg some HDD irregularities.
I got a few -36 codes when copying some files to my Ext HDD and even just coping on my internal HDD
When i deleted movie files and other bits from my internal HDD, the free space available on the disk did not increase
SMART status of my 6 month old Seagate is fine
Disk Utilitiy verifies the disk fine. Permissions are fine too.
I wiped free space with Disk Utility at 3 passes - suddenly i have my free space from the deleted files back! - Great
The strange thing is, even though i now have this space back, about this mac shows the attached image - which does NOT add up (see other size and total disk size) - How can i have a 180gb other which was that size before i deleted those files?
Any Idea what's going on? I doubt my HDD is broken - but something is not right here.

UPDATE:
I've run diskwarrior (no major faults found), onyx several times and gone over my disk with omnidisksweeper.
There are no large files anywhere, and everything points to me using about 217GB of disk space (Omnidisksweeper, Disk Utility, iStatPro e.t.c).
I have no idea where or why system info is writing 180GB of Other - thats almost as much as all the info i have.
Anyone else have this issue?

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http://postimage.org/image/sgzvwhohv/
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Recap...
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Can you install Lion over the top of Mountain Lion to get rid of these awful Logic glitches?

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