How do I remove an application that was trashed from an external drive?

I did a clean install of Snow Leopard and used Migration Assistant to restore my apps from my Time Machine backup.
I also have a second external drive, and I had something on it called "iP100 series On-screen Manual". It's a manual for my printer that I didn't need anymore so I moved it to the trash.
As soon as I did that, a little printer icon with a question mark appeared on ALL my Mac folders - even the ones on the external drives. When I move my curser over  the icon, it's identified as  "Trash of Seagate External Hard Drive>iP100 series On-screen Manual".
I emptied the trash, thinking that the little icon would go away, but it was just replaced by a big question mark. Then if I click on the question mark, I get the message: "The item can't be found".
I reinstalled the printer from a CD, and it put an alias on my desktop called "iP100 series On-screen Manual" which does open the on-screen manual, but when I try to find the original, it takes me to a file in the Applications Folder called "Contents8f.help" which also opens the on-screen manual, so it must be the original. I tried renaming the file to the same name as the alias. I tried trashing it. I tried trashing everything related to the printer and reinstalling again, but nothing has worked. The question marks remain!
It seems that my Mac has a desperate need to find "Trash of Seagate External Hard Drive>iP100 series On-screen Manual" but the trash is empty and I have no idea where to find this item that  "can't be found".

Thanks. I couldn't get the control-click to work, but I found that if I opened a folder and picked "Customize Tool Bar" from "View" in the Finder, I was able to drag the question mark out of the toolbar and onto the desktop where it "poofed' and disappeared. Doing this removed the question mark from the toolbar in all my folders.

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