Where did my memory go? HD showing full but why??

I have an 80GB HD - it's only rated to 75GB which is fine.
The problem is it's showing completely full, but when I look in Finder under Macintosh HD, the 4 folders (Applications, Library, System and Users) only take up 65GB of space.
What happened to the other 10GB - where did it go? I've looked for it everywhere...

80 GB turns out is about 75.2 GB formatted. The reason is ISO. Unfortunately the entire hard drive industry has played this game since the beginning, and ISO has let them get away with it. It is discussed in:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30065
The other two thirds of lost space, may be taken up by invisible files.
See my FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.
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