It worked!! (guess you knew it would)Thank you for your patience. Especially since you had to post the EXACT same solution twice. I missed the space, but got it now. Thanks again.
Okay, I realize this is getting long for perhaps a simple problem, so thanks again everyone for the help. Here's what I put in the terminal
Password:
rm: illegal option -- /
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
unlink file
[Redhouse:~/.Trash] mike% sudo rm...
I'm at the enter password step and can't seem to type anything...I thought this was a safety thing, but the right password typed (with no characters showing) still doesn't work
I'm not sure if that will do it. I will try booting in OS9 to move the items to the trash, but
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