Cleaning up camera's memory stick

I know this is sort of off topic, but I'm hoping someone can help. I have a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W90 with a 1 gig memory stick. When I dump the pics onto the mac and delete them from the DCIM folder on the memory stick, they seem to be staying on the stick. I check the info of the memory stick and it's still almost full even tho nothing is showing up in Finder.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Jeff

Hi got.mac;
Most camera manufacturers recommend that you do not do any maintenance of the memory card with a computer but do it instead with the camera. Generally they also recommend that you reformat the memory cards periodically in the camera. It appears from what I have been able to find out on this that the way the camera formats the memory card is slightly different then way the computer does so using the camera is the preferred method.
Allan

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