Clicking on the trash icon also opens a finder window? Anyway, I did what you said, now it says .Trash/junk is not empty -:)

I searched Google again and found the weblog of one guy who'd faced the same problem - http://www.edgecurve.com/imac/log.php. Look at "Entry #6 - February 18th, 2002" for problem and "Entry #11 - February 28th, 2002" for solution.

When I booted into OS 9, the trash in OS 9 was empty, which probably makes sense since OS 9 might not be storing deleted files in ~/.Trash. But the funny thing was that I couldn't find ~/.Trash in the Finder equivalent of OS 9 (I did see other hidden files though). So I'm wondering where this guy deleted the files from. I've emailed him also, but he hasn't responded..

~Yogi