OSX 10.4 - Deleted files, but hard drive space still occupied!

(Running OSX 10.4.10 on a 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook)
I recently noticed that deleting files & emptying them from the Trash does not free up any disk space. I've tried Secure Erasing the files, verifying and repairing the hard drive & permissions, restarting, etc.
Please help!

Doing this, I got:
4.0K .//.dvdcss
4.0K .//.mplayer
du: .//.Spotlight-V100: Permission denied
du: .//.TemporaryItems/folders.0: Permission denied
0B .//.TemporaryItems
16K .//.Trash
du: .//.Trashes: Permission denied
28K .//Desktop
1.9G .//Docs
410M .//Documents
10G .//Downloads
81M .//E-Books
344K .//EDUCATION
7.2M .//English
7.3M .//FF.N
516K .//History
15G .//Library
13G .//Manga
63G .//Movies
9.3G .//Music
7.0M .//NaNoWriMo
501M .//Pictures
64K .//Psychology
8.0K .//Public
28K .//Sites
68K .//Spanish
114G ./
Movies & trash are the size they are supposed to be, and the folder size did change in Movies when I deleted stuff - just not the free space. 114GB is indeed the correct amount of data actually on my computer.
In Disk Utility (and everywhere else on the computer) it tells me that:
Capacity: 186.0GB
Available: 3.7GB
Used: 182.3GB
This wasn't a one-time thing where I deleted a bunch of files, it's persistent. Now matter how much or how little I delete at a time, my free space never changes.

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