G5 crashes on empty trash

I'm at a total loss here and am in major trouble. I'm nearly out of disk space and things keep piling up in my trash. Everytime I try to empty the trash the computer crashes.
Here is the error report. Anyone know what is wrong?
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x00102874): jnl: transaction too big (8384512 >= 8388096 bytes, bufsize 4096, tr 0x504bfb0 bp 0x55068110)
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x000952D8 0x000957F0 0x00026898 0x00102874 0x00249728 0x00248D30 0x00247088 0x00247150
0x00247204 0x00247F80 0x0022C960 0x0022CB7C 0x0023B2C8 0x0023AE4C 0x000FC92C 0x000EE3FC
0x002AB7F8 0x000ABB30 0x0574E860
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x5E8B2A00)
PC=0x9000636C; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0x5EECA000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x90BAC7E0; R1=0xBFFFC0F0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.0: Thu Feb 22 20:54:07 PST 2007; root:xnu-792.17.14~1/RELEASE_PPC
Model: PowerMac11,2, BootROM 5.2.7f1, 2 processors, PowerPC G5 (1.1), 2.3 GHz, 4 GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT, GeForce 7800GT, PCI, 256 MB
Memory Module: DIMM0/J6700, 1 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, PC2-4200U-444
Memory Module: DIMM1/J6800, 1 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, PC2-4200U-444
Memory Module: DIMM2/J6900, 1 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, PC2-4200U-444
Memory Module: DIMM3/J7000, 1 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, PC2-4200U-444
PCI Card: GeForce 7800GT, Display, SLOT-1
PCI Card: bcom5714, network, GIGE
PCI Card: bcom5714, network, GIGE
Serial ATA Device: Hitachi HDS725050KLA360, 465.76 GB
Parallel ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA-4165B
USB Device: USB2.0 MFP(Hi-Speed), EPSON, Up to 480 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: Apple Optical USB Mouse, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 1.5 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: Hub in Apple Pro Keyboard, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: Apple Pro Keyboard, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 250 mA
FireWire Device: LaCie d2 Extreme LUN 0, LaCie Group SA, Up to 400 Mb/sec
FireWire Device: unknown_device, unknown_value, Up to 400 Mb/sec

Hi Sirand-
Is there actually something else besides the LaCie drive on the firewire bus? Do you have any drives chained together?
Luck-
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