Building icons on desktop

My buddy has dragged the contents of the "all images" folder to the desktop. 6634 files now are on his desktop. It appears the finder is building icons for each file and the computer is running really sluggish... click... select... you get the idea.
I am leaving the computer on to see if it can just fix itself. I tried to erase the files but I get the message "the item is in use by the system, erasing may interrupt the program..." I need to select the "continue" to erase the file, then is waits about a minute before returning to me the same message. Might take a while with 6633 files now.
I upgraded the computer to Snow Leopard, fixed permissions; all to no avail.
Set up a new user and the computer is fine so it must be the 6633 files on the desktop.
Options to fix this problems would be appreciated...
Ken

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