My MacMini was acting strange and I ran Disk Utility and it came back with several problems and said the disk needed to be repaired. I booted into my clone and used Disk Utility to repair which it did. I Repaired Permissions and check the disk again and it showed no more problems.

Then I discovered that when I tried to trash a file it was deleted immediately and not going to the trash. I opened Terminal and typed in: sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash

That fixed the trash but it keeps reverting back to deleting files immediately instead of putting them in the trash. Finder Preferences does NOT have secure empty checked.

Anyone know what is causing this and how I can make sure files go to the trash instead of being deleted immediately?

I'm using OSX 10.6.8

Thanks