Cannot delete emails in Thunderbird

I cannot delete emails from thunderbird. The client gives me an error "The current operation on 'inbox' did not succeed. The mailserver for [MYACCOUNT] responded: [TRYCREATE] The requested item could not be found." What does this mean? This is using IMAP FYI.
Thanks in advance for any help,
-Steve

I found how to fix it here:
http://wiki.sourcemage.org/HowTo%282f%29ChangeIMAPTrashFolderInThunderbird.html
Unfortunately, I cannot delete the other "Trash" folder now. How do I delete it?

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