Unknown files hogging my hard disk of space!

Recently, I purchased Roxio's Toast Titanium and installed the 7.1 update with it as well, along with Mac The Ripper.
I only began realising that after ripping using Mac The Ripper and then burning on blank DVDs using Toast that my hard disk was being eaten by all these DVD files.
Why is this happening? I've used trashed all VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders and chose the Secure Empty Trash option using OnyX and Maintenance. These files should be gone forever.
However, despite restarting, my hard disk is still being hogged by these file, but I when I look them up, all their folders are empty.
The whole point of me buying Toast was so that I could clear my hard disk of space by burning onto blanks. Now... it seems I might as well buy a 1 Terabyte external hard disk at the rate these files are hogging my bandwidth.
I'm extremely frustrated here and its depressing cos I dont have cash for an external right now... Any help please?
I would be extremely grateful. Thanks a bunch!

Do you use FileVault?
I had a similar problem downloading 20GB of ISO files and burning them to CD. I had deleted the files and emptied the trash, but the space wasn't recovered. You can check by opening Terminal and typing:
du -h .Trash
This will show the side of the hidden Trash file. Mine was quite large, but I had emptied it, and needed to wait for FileVault to prompt me to recover the space after logging out. Unfortunately, FileVault didn't ask me this time. It took several sessions before I was prompted, and my space was recovered.

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