I guess it's a terminological problem. I'm quite sure that everyone else in this thread meant "drag the file to the Trash and also empty the Trash" when they advised you to "delete" the file. That's what it means to delete a file.
That's what it meant in OS X 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6.
That's also what it meant in OS 9.
It's not at all unreasonable for grelber to have thought that "delete" meant "select the item to be deleted and hit command-delete," which is what it meant in OS....
Edit: And dragging an item to the Trash to delete it is not the least bit intuitive in the face of command-delete, which is how I've always deleted files unless they don't allow me to do so.
