Can't delete photos from Lightroom 2

Hi all,
My first post here.
I am having trouble deleting photos from my hard drive through Lightroom 2. It will remove the "Rejected" photos from the catalogue, but will only sporadically delete them from my hard drive. I've tried a number of solutions I read about on-line: deteting from the bottom filmstrip only rather than the grid, using Ctrl+backspace, etc. but nothing works. Or I should probably say that nothing works consistently. I also cannot find any pattern as to when it does delete them properly -- the last few days nothing has worked. Do I just have to live with this, or have any of you out there figured out?
I've also checked the properties of these files in Explorer -- they are not "Read only" nor are they "Hidden". I've made sure that I'm in the Library module, Grid view selected, all filters are off, and I've tried deleting them from individual folders as well as the "All Photographs" option. The last couple of days, all I can get is a message like "There are 203 files that cannot be deleted."
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Take care.

I think I saw this once, with a few rejects (only with Lr 2.) It would show me the reject grid view without any images, but I could still see them in the library grid as rejected.  Eventually I was able to reject them, but I don't remember what I did, other than ignore it and hope it went away eventually.
You can do nutty stuff like unflag the images (maybe make a collection first, so you don't lose them in your library) and then delete some or all of them from the filesystem.  Then let Lr complain about the missing files and make the gesture that drops them from the catalogue. It really depends if this problem is related to the underlying unlink operation or some database integrity issue.
I used to regularly SQLite vacuum my catalogue, too, so if it is catalogue related, perhaps that shook things loose.

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