Icons in finder do not disappear when deleted

This is kind of hard to describe, but my finder's been acting really strange lately. Everytime i delete a file or folder in the finder the icon will not disappear completely, leaving some of the name of the file in the finder. This is really annoying, and it makes it look like the file is still there, even though it's been deleted.
If I just click one time on any of the icons, only the first line of the file's name will be selected, which makes it hard to read the file's name. Ive been searching the forums for an answer to this issue, but I still havent found anything.
Any ideas? thanks in advance
Alvaro
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No so fast given how extreme that sort of action is. Try starting in "Safe mode" by restarting and holding down the Shift key…
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107393
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