"your mac osx startup disk has no more space"

I getting the following message constantly: "your mac osx startup disk has no more space". It pops up the "force quit" menu and displays this message at the top.
I'm getting this error on an iMac that has a brand new HD installed by Apple. I restored from a Time Capsule, Time Machine backup.
The 500GB hard drive has 388.28GB of free space left.
Updated to OSX 10.6.6.
Might have been running either 10.5.? or 10.6.? before the old HD crashed.
Both the Time Capsule and iMac are using wired gigabit ethernet to connect to our network.
I did check the startup disk using Disk Utility, it passed.
I also ran Fix Permissions and got quite a bit of ACL errors, but they all seem to be the ones on the "ignore" list from a different forum posting I found.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Tahoe Tech Group wrote:
I getting the following message constantly: "your mac osx startup disk has no more space". It pops up the "force quit" menu and displays this message at the top.
That's quite odd.
Do you get this immediately after startup, or only after running for a while?
If after running for a while, what was running?
Have you done any backups since reinstalling? If so, were there any problems?
Is there only a single partition on the Startup disk?
I did check the startup disk using Disk Utility, it passed.
You mean you did a +*Verify Disk,+* right?
Does it show Verified for the S.M.A.R.T. status?

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PapaCarl wrote:
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I have over 50% available in HD space on the iMac.
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CMCSK wrote:
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I have over 50% available in HD space on the iMac.
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Never (unless it turned on itself)
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I recently started having a window pop up that says "Your Mac OS X startup disk has no more space available for application memory." Under that it says "To avoid problems with your computer, quit any applications you are not using. Closing windows and removing files from your startup disk will also help." I did have several applications open that weren't being used, so I quit those and closed several windows, and the window stopped popping up. Now it startedup again and I can't get it to stop. What can I do to fix this issue? Thanks

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