Not enough disk space on an empty drive?

I have a Power Mac G4 MDD with an 80GB boot drive. Nothing but the OS (Leopard) is installed on that drive. Any time I try to copy any file, no matter how small, I get an error message claiming there is not enough disk space for the transfer. This happens especially when I try to copy files from my 400GB storage drive, and I've reinstalled Leopard a couple times. Why does it keep doing this? Any help would be most appreciated.
P.S. The CMOS battery is dead, could that be creating an issue? The system also occasionally kernal panics and/or freezes.

How are the drives formatted?
The System drive should be Mac OS Extended- Journaled with the APM partition scheme (in Disk Utility/Partition/Options).
Is the drive jumped properly? It should be Cable Select and on the end connector of the IDE ribbon.
What connection method is being used for the external drive? How is it formatted?
The CMOS battery is dead, could that be creating an issue?
Yes.
The PRAM battery (no CMOS in a Mac) should be replaced. Related to this particular issue or not, there are a myriad of issues that may occur with a dead battery.
The system also occasionally kernal panics and/or freezes.
Kernel Panics are often RAM related. Use Memtest X or Rember to test the RAM.
Heat is always an issue with MDDs and can cause freezes.
Install Temperature Monitor (Bresink) and consider using CHUD and Nap mode:
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