Jammed up my desktop

I just did something incredibly stupid. I was preparing to export and burn about 200 photos from Iphoto to a CD. Instead of putting them in my photo folder or document folder, I accidentally sent the whole package to the desktop which is now frozen and unresponsive. The photo icons look like they are stacked on top of one another.
I tried to move the pictures to the trash but I can't get any response from the cursor. I tried to force quit (relaunch) the finder and that hasn't worked.
Any ideas

See this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3110935&#3110935
Niel's solution is the best I've seen.
Francine
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