Are you using any scripts? Because some of them could leave unused (and unreachable) images around. If you have the Python console, try either:
And see if you can relate all the output with open images.
Code:
print gimp.image_list() # Raw
print "\n".join([str((i.ID,i.name)) for i in gimp.image_list()]) # Clean
And see if you can relate all the output with open images.