1.8 terrabyte Adobe preference file found!

I was helping someone with their imac yesterday. They have CS4 installed on a recent iMac running Mountain Lion. The computer was very sluggish and reporting the startup drive (2tb) as full. We ran GrandPerspective and discovered a file called "CSUTracker.xml" in the Application Support > Adobe > AAMUpdater folder had swallowed up 1.8tb! That is one huge text file. I left it deleting overnight and it never emptied from the trash. I Suspect the updater crashed during the last install in October 2012 and a stray process has been building this monster ever since.
My questions: How do i remove the file? What if i can't delete it? re-install the system (you are joking)?

just found this http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/finder.html
so it's just a case of changing the path or dropping the file onto Terminal?
progress report
Attempts to delete the file in Mac OS (including Terminal/ rm) have all come to  a lock-up or spinning pizza. I have moved the file to the desktop and removed a 'Staff' premission from it as it caused an override prompt with the method below
I'm now in single user mode, the computer is warming up and these commands are in place
:/ root# /sbin/mount -uw /
:/ root# rm /Users/jax/Desktop/CSUTracker.xml
No sign of the prompt returning as yet!

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