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.
When it comes to computers, I'm a literalist.
Not to belabor the point: Delete means delete (via the key which reads 'delete'). Trash or drag to trash +/- empty trash means something else (ie, what it says).
I've never considered delete and trash to be synonyms; and probably I've never thought about the issue (until now) when I've gotten rid of a file by dragging it to Trash. My bad.
