Clearing CACHE and Web Previews in Safari 4.0.3???

I had a problem where an old page was loading in a window of Safari and it was because the cache page was loading, not the real, new updated page. (Discovered by opening in FireFox...)
Now I see that in /users/myname/Library/Caches there are 2 folders related to Safari and each had over 500 mb of stuff: One is com.apple.Safari and then the folder web pages preview; the other is the folder Safari in that same Caches folder. I used the command EMPTY CACHE in Safari, but it seems all these hundreds of files were still there.
Any way to have them periodically (or upon startup of Safari or the Mac) automatically deleted?
Any 'danger' to do this?
Thanks for comments!

Greetings,
Caches cannot be emptied automatically, nor can Web Page Previews, which is used for the Top Sites and Cover Flow features in Safari. You can empty those folders, but Web Page Previews will simply be refreshed with new images as you browse.
If you don't want to use the Top Sites or Cover Flow features in Safari 4.0.3, you can disable it completely, and then you could empty those folders (com.apple.Safari and Web Page Previews) and then Lock the folders so any cache files from browsing would be deleted when you quit Safari.

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