Annoying "Recovered Files" folder in Trash

At first, I saw recovered files for growl in the trash. So I deleted growl because adium insant messenger works fine without it anyway. But now, I'm getting a folder called plugtmp, which contains a file called 's', in the Recovered Files folder. I guess I'm a little obsessive compulsive but I don't like seeing this recovered files folder in my trash all the time. What do I do to stop it?

yea, i know it's not a big deal. But like i said, i'm pretty OCD lol. This knd of thing shouldn't be happening. Programs usually delete temporary files on their own without moving them to the trash. Of course this kind of stuff only happens to people like me....

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