Delete all desktop items

At work I use a PowerMac G4 AGP with OSX 10.3. I accidentally dragged and dropped 1000+ documents onto the desktop. Is there any way to automatically delete every item on the desktop? The machine won't respond to any commands, (apple+A to select them all and delete them, etc.) beacause the performance is slowed down after login by all these items. Any suggestions?

Mike,
It sounds like you have a couple of options. Maybe you would like to follow up on Ed's suggestion.
If you want to follow Kurt's suggestion and move the files with unix commands, I can tell you a little more about dealing with files that do not have extensions. The trick in this business is that the * character is a wildcard. So, if you issue the command
mv *.jpg ~/Desktop/temp/
that will move all files which have the extension jpg and anything before the period. These files are moved to the temp folder on your Desktop.
If you have files without an extension, you will have to find some other common character to latch onto. For instance, if you have one or more files that begin with the letter s, then you could issue a command such as
mv s* ~/Desktop/temp/
and all files that begin with s will be moved. Or, if you had a bunch of files that had the combination xyz buried in their names, you could issue the command
mv xyz ~/Desktop/temp/
and they would be moved. So, the point of using the wildcard is to find some common characters in the names of a bunch of files, so that you can move them all at once.
The hidden files that Kurt mentioned all begin with a . (period) and you will normally not see those. They are considered invisible files. If you issued the mv * command as I suggested, you will move those also. Kurt's suggestion, which I agree with, is to avoid moving those files, because some of them may have have a special use for the operating system.
I hope this helps. If you have more questions, fire away.
EMAC G4 1.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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