Deleting a jpg file

Hi,
I downloaded a jpg file from Amazon because I sell books at my website. The image file seems to be damaged - or something. Anyway, I have spent the last half hour trying to delete it. It says I do not have permission to delete the file. I tried to login into a terminal window hoping to use Unix/Linux commands to rm the file. Even though it looks like I have permission to delete it, it said I didn't have permission. Anyway, i tried to su to root, on my own dang computer and it wouldn't let me do that. How do I go to root user to delete this stupid file? Or even better, how can I delete this file?
Thanks
Amy
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.2.x)

1. Note that Jaguar now supports holding down the Option key when emptying the trash to force-trash a locked file (as opposed to a file for which the permissions are improperly set), just like OS 9 did.
2.You can also use the shortcut key combination: ShiftCommandDelete and the Finder will empty the trash normally.
3.If you add option to that: ShiftOption+CommandDelete, the Finder will delete whatever's in the trash, locked or not.
4.Another way to deal with files that are hard to get rid of is to compress them with DropStuff. Set DropStuff to delete the original after stuffing. DropStuff may be ignorant of permissions, so it will just delete the recalcitrant files after stuffing them, and the compressed archive that remains should be easy to trash normall.
5.Sometimes a file becomes damaged, for instance when a file isn't completely downloaded from the Internet. When you go to trash such a file you may get a message that it can't be trashed because it is "being used by another application." You can try using a utility like TrashIt!
http://www.nonamescriptware.com/forums/index.php?&act=Downloads&CODE=02&id=7
to force-trash this file.
6.You can change a file's permissions, so that you have privileges to trash it, using X-RAY or Modifier.
Another option is to use X-RAY
http://www.brockerhoff.net/xray/index.html
Modifier
http://www.finikin.com/
Change the file type to "text" in X-RAY or Modifier and then you can delete it.
Bye!

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