Cleaning up after Safari

Posted this in the wrong part of the forum before so here it is here::
Most of the time while I have been using various flavours of OSX, rather than using the clear cache options I would always quit find the folders where cookies and history data were stored and do a secure delete. Especially after internet banking. Since 10.5.2, one of the folders that I used to delete is missing. These are all located in the home folder and are/were;
Users/Myshortname/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari
Users/Myshortname/Library/Caches/Adobe
Users/Myshortname/Library/Cookies
Users/Myshortname/Library/Preferences/Macromedia (to remove flash cookies)
Users/Myshortname/Library/Safari/Downloads (if there were any)
Users/Myshortname/Library/Safari/LastSession.plist
Users/Myshortname/Library/Safari/History.plist
The missing item is;
Users/Myshortname/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari
Anybody have any ideas what's happened to it or what it's been replaced by. I've never used the private browsing feature and lately found out that it's not as secure as we thought anyway, look here:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080205123312792
Does any body know the correct commands to move to the trash the cache files that the above link finds? Then it can be securely deleted also.

Hi
Here's how you get to the Caches' com.apple.Safari.
First you'll need to reveal hidden files and folders. You can do this via OnyX. When you open OnyX, click on the Parameters panel. There, select Finder. You'll see the selection for hidden folders/files.
Quit/relaunch the Finder via Command/Option/Esc keys.
Here's the path:
HD/private/var/folders/rO/rOXEeGLaEimXnIwp9j5Jq++TI/-Caches-/com.apple.Safarii. Drag a copy (holding down the Option key to create a duplicate) to your User Account>Library>Caches folder.
Another option to using OnyX is WhatSize. After the WhatSize sort is complete, navigate as listed above, then right click on com.apple.safari>reveal in Finder. Drag a copy etc. per above.

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