Cannot delete two stubborn video files

Hello all,
I have two files that I have downloaded by accident from a p2p site. They are both .mkv files, which I believe makes them Matroska video files. They are trailers for movies. They appear to work fine in VLC, but when I delete them and empty the Trash they appear back in the downloads folder a couple of hours later. I have tried 'shredding' them using a shredding Dashboard widget, but they won't disappear from my downloads folder (at least, they go and then come back). My p2p program is Vuze (formerly Azureus). I have checked permissions, and I have read and write privileges. Can anyone help me get rid of these files?
I am not amazingly adept at computer stuff, so if there's anything technical involved I'd appreciate a step-by-step guide.
Thanks so much!
Leigh

Try this
In a terminal, enter
rm
be sure to include a space after rm
then take one of the video files you wish to trash and drag it into the terminal next to the
rm
you should then see something like
rm /Users/nero/Desktop/test.txt
where Desktop will be, on your machine, the folder the file is in, and
test.txt
will be the name of the video file.
Once it looks correct, hit the enter key and it should be gone for good.

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