User folder larger than Macintosh HD

I am trying to merge my user onto an iMac with an existing user. I checked the size of my Time Machine backup and it looked like there was ample room on the target machine. However, when I attempted to move my user using Migration Assistant, I was told that there was not enough space. As it turns out, my user folder is occupying more space than what Macintosh HD reports it is using. I have used both Finder and Disk Utility to confirm this. I have attached screenshots of the finder results for both Macintosh HD and my user folder. I am on OS X Yosemite version 10.10.3, on a 24-inch early 2008 iMac (this is the machine that I will be getting rid of).I've tried the following suggestions, but so far the problem persists:
Starting up in the Recovery partition and repairing Macintosh HD, but it said there was nothing wrong with the disk.
I have repaired disk permissions several times
Run fsck from Single User Mode, all to no avail.
I've manually deleted the .DS_Store files from Macintosh HD and my user folder and then relaunched Finder
I have also attempted to force Spotlight to reindex my entire hard drive
So at this point I'm at a loss to explain the discrepancy in size and don't know of any other options. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

I used Disk Utility to repair permissions and this is what I got.
'Warning: SUID file "usr/libexec/load_hdi" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiskManagement.framework/Versions/A/Resources /DiskManagementTool" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Reso urces/Locum" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Install.framework/Versions/A/Resources/runner " has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Admin.framework/Versions/A/Resources/readconf ig" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Admin.framework/Versions/A/Resources/writecon fig" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "usr/libexec/authopen" has been modified and will not be repaired.
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Sites".
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/OwnerGroupTool" has been modified and will not be repaired.
ACL found but not expected on "Users/Shared".
ACL found but not expected on "Users".
ACL found but not expected on "Users/.localized".
ACL found but not expected on "Users/Shared/.localized".
I can't tell what it means cos I'm just a regular user with no Unix knowledge. Anyway, now other computers on my network can't see me as a User, only sees the Shared Folder. Could it be because I upgraded to Leopard ?

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