Scratch Disks full error in Photoshop - 107 Gigs of space on hard drive

I am trying to edit pictures under a dead line. I have used this computer a few times to edit pictures with no problems, now that I it is work and I have a dead line...there are problems.
I have dealt with scratch disk problems before and it was always that my hard drive was to full. I would delete stuff and the problem would go away.
I don't think my hard drive is full now, but I went along with everyone suggestions and deleted 10 gigs of stuff. And emptied my garbage, and rebooted...still I have the same problem.
I have 2.33 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo and 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM...
Using Photo shop CS on files processed with Capture One Pro
Any ideas of what else could be causing the problem...do I have to partition my hard drive...cause I don't want to...why would it work before and now all the sudden I get this error massage?
Thanks

I should have also said I get an error massage from the Computer at the same time saying my startup disk is full. So the computer tells me that it has 107 Gig but also tells me my hard drive is almost full. That is why I posted it here. The computer is telling me 2 different things.

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Processor 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
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Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB
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Step 1
Quit Calendar. Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Calendars/Calendar Cache
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Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash as well:
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Back up all data now.
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Message was edited by: R_Kelly

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I have started to notice recently that when I run Photoshop CS on my Mac OSX Tiger, I am getting the Startup Disk Full error message.
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