Why am I losing harddrive space?

I am a active editor and film geek so I often am moving any where from 20 to 200G's of space at a time as well as constantly downloading things for my projects. Somewhere I must have gotten a virus because I removed over 80G's from my harddrive and since have lost those 80G's and only have a fluctuating 600MB's now. I went through the processes and checked to see if something fishy was happening there. The most processing happening is in the Chrome Helper but that doesn't appear to be the root of the problem. I never set up my Time Machine so thats not the problem either. I used disk utility and now it says it can't repair the disk but all the other verifications work fine. It has been happening pretty regularly for the past 2 weeks. I keep removing heavy items and lo and behold the free space disappears. Also not sure if its linked but since this started happening my mail stopped working. HELP!

First thing I suggest is be sure you emptied your trash after all the deleting.
I use WhatSize to check space on my drive.
Disk Inventory X is also good for this.
The X Lab: Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk has some good information on what to look for when cleaning your drive.
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