I do not have permissions to trash files – tried everything

When I try to delete a .jpg in Adobe Bridge CS4 or in Finder, the former says I do not have permissions, the latter requires me to enter the admin password. In fact, trying to delete any file in Finder requires the admin password.
This started happening in Snow Leopard, and continues following my upgrade to Lion. Extremely annoying!
Tried and failed 1
Cmd-I (Get info) on my home drive and resetting permissions.
Tried and failed 2
Using Terminal whilst logged in to reset permissions over Trash, namely:
sudo chown your_user_name .Trash
Tried and failed 3
Turn on the Mac whilst holding down cmd + R. You can let go once you see a spinning dial. You will then see the ”Mac OS X Utilities” screen.
On the top menu, click Utilities, then click Terminal.
Type resetpassword and press Enter.
Click on your main hard drive.
In the dropdown box under “Select the user account” make sure to select your username.
Underneath where it says “Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs”, click the Reset button.
Tried and failed 4
Upgrading to Lion.
Tried and failed 5
Going to make a cup of tea.
Tried and failed 6
Really hoping really hard.
Any ideas? I've invested two hours on this support forum so far, but can find nothing else to try.

Thanks for the suggestion Eric.
This fault appeared when I was running Snow Leopard, and the upgrade to Lion didn't fix it. May I ask what makes you think having another go at installing Lion would do it?
Saying that, I've found this article, Volume corruption may cause permissions problems in OS X, recommending I reformat the disk drive and then reinstall Lion. Sounds a bit drastic and onerous just to fix this little (albeit annoying) problem!
Worth a go? Or shall I wait another couple of days to see if anyone comes up with a simpler fix here?!

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