Too many files and space used after Migration Assistant

After running migration assistant to transfer my 2006 MacBook Pro (core duo) to my new 2010 MacBook Pro (i7), I noticed the amount of space used went from 87 gb to 144 gb. The number of files went from 816,834 to 981,311. Was this to be expected? That many new files and space used?
One thing that happened on the first run was about an hour and half into the transfer it thinks it had lost the connection between the systems and would not restart. I had to quit the migration on the old system and reboot(power off and on) the new one. The re-run finished ok. It did think that the users on the old system were already on the new so I had it replace them. There were a few folders that indicated they were from the old mac and I deleted them.
Also there were a lot of Disk Permission errors when I ran a Verify Disk Permissions which cleared up when I ran Repair Disk Permissions.
Any thoughts/ideas on the disk space issue?
running 10.6.3

Solved.
On the restart of the Migration Assistant, it duplicated my user directories and put them in a deleted users directory in /Users.
I deleted that directory to free up the disk space.

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