Powerbook showing full hard drive!!!after itunes update

Hi guys,
Ive got a 80gb powerbook. I recently firewired my itunes library from my powermac to my powerbook. I deleted the old library on my powerbook before doing this. Anyway since ive done this the laptop tells me there is only 2 gb of disk space left. Ive used whatsize to see where it is.
users: 16.7gb
applications 6.67gb
library 2.12gb
system 1.53gb
the rest all adds up to about 1.5gb
and thats it so where as all the hard disk space gone. ive looked at all the posts here but it seems when they use whatsize it shows where all the disk space has gone. On my laptop i cant see any strange files and it shows over 70gb used but it doesnt add up when you go through each area as ive shown above .. please help

Hi again guys, I downloaded onyx after being unable to find any files of any significant size that would cause this problem. Anyway i deleted the misc options area in cleaning. purely out of frustration to be honest. but hey presto my laptop no shows over 40gb of unused space. dont know what the problem was but thankfully it is now sorted...thanks

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