Cannot delete Entourage database file

Aloha,
I am running Entourage (v11.3.6) from Office 2004. At some point in the distant past I had to rebuild my database, and created a backup copy of the existing database. That file, originally named "Database" takes up 2.49 GB.
Much later, I decided to delete that file to retrieve the 2.49 GB of disk space. However, emptying the trash causes a kernel panic. I tried a command line "rm" and got a kernel panic. I tried booting into safe mode, but it did not allow me to even try to delete the file. I tried "cat < /dev/null >! Database" and got a kernel panic. (This is a trick that can empty a file that is currently open and being accessed by a process, often a system process that you don't have complete control over.)
Permissions are wide open, the file is unlocked, I can rename it and move it without any consequences. The only thing I can't do is delete it!
I would appreciate any suggestion you have for further attempts.
Thanks.

Thanks for your help. I solved the problem. Apparently journaling does not allow files larger than 2096640 to be deleted. Turning journaling off via Disk Utility, emptying (successfully!) the trash, and then turning journaling back on worked.
Details:
I booted into single user mode (sorry...not safe mode as I had said earlier). This time, I noticed that it said the file system was mounted read-only, and to run fsck to check the file system and then mount the file system to allow read/write. The commands I used were
/sbin/fsck -yf
/sbin/mount -uw /
Note that the "-f" option on fsck forces the check, which was required because journaling was turned on.
After mounting the file system I tried
\rm xyz
and it gave me a much more informative kernel crash. In particular, the first line read
panic(cpu 0): jnl: transaction too big (2093568 >= 2096640 bufsize 4096, tr 0x1cf8fc8 bp 0x2747fdc0
Aha! Neglecting the fact that 2093568 is not larger than 2096640, it indicated that the file size was deemed too large for the removal, and journaling may be involved.
So, I rebooted into normal mode, opened Disk Utility, selected the file system, and then selected the menu "File–>Disable Journaling" (or I could have typed command-J) to disable the journaling. Returning to the Finder I emptied the trash, and voila, no kernel panic. (And I made sure my 2.49 GB was released!)
Thanks again,
Bob

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