Scratch Disk Error, Does Not Recognize Available Space on HD

I'm having trouble resetting my scratch disk in Final Cut Express. The program crashed a moment ago, and when I restared and then returned to the program, the scratch disk was set to 12MB. I have over 140 GB available, but can't get FCE to recognize that space. I can connect to an external Firewire drive and use all of the space available there, but not when using a scratch disk on the hard drive.
My version of FCE is 1.0.1. Any help would be appreciated.
Power Mac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.2)  

Eccliptic
Sounds like you may have created a phantom file.
This happens if a value is not set in the Scratch Discs> Limit Capture Now To x mins. Tick the box and make sure a value is set, eg. 15 mins.
Have a look in the scratch disc folder for a usless file of about 120 gig and delete it.
If a value is not set and you use capture NOW, FCE does not know how much space to allocate, so it allocates everything it can get it's hands on and you end up with a big useless phantom file.
Al

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