Strange allocation of hard drive space...can't figure it out...

I may be missing something, but I have a brand new Macbook Pro with a 160gig hd. I've just installed Leopard and when I check my hard drive in the finder it shows that I have about 80gigs of space free. But when I go to my home folder it tells me that I only have about 1mb. Then programs start to go strange telling me I can't get email or save a file because I don't have the space.
Can someone help me with this?
Thanks so much...

Before you do anything. Make a good, unencrypted backup of your files. if you have the space on your hard drive, do it there. If not, put them on an external hard drive. Then, turn File Vault off for good.
Use the Apple Discussions "Search" feature and type in "file vault" if you want to know more. It seems like FileVault stories always end badly.

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