PBG4 with 'missing / dissapearing' disk space issue

My wife's powerbook appears to have 'missing' hard disk space and I can't figure out why. Here is the information from System Profiler about her only hard drive in the computer.
Capacity: 74.41 GB
Available: 6.91 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
The issue is that when I click on her hard drive icon in the Finder view I see 4 items:
- Applications (4.92 GB)
- Library (2.45 GB)
- System (1.07 GB)
- Users (24.17 GB)
This totals 32.61 GB of used disk space
The hard drive is 74.41 GB
So I should have 41.80 GB of free space
Why do I only have 6.91 GB?
Where is the other 34.89 GB?
I have run disk utilities and repaired permissions. I have also run fsck by booting while holding apple-S. I've looked at the logs in /var/logs and nothing is bigger than 2MB.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.

We upgraded the OS to 10.5 and the issue is gone.

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