Lion can't trash files

Hi there,
After having too many issues with trashing files after my upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion, I decided to burn a bootable DVD of Lion and wipe my hard drive. Then I did a clean install of Lion.
Now I am having the same issues, where trashing causes a freeze in the Emptying the Trash... pop up window. Basically nothing is trashing.
Basically I have tried to:
Force quit or relaunch finder.
Taken all files out of the trash and try to trash one at a time.
I did notice that maybe I had left an app open on the dock once, and I trash that file. However in Snow Leopard it will let me know that app cannot be trashed as it is still opened.
I quit this app and restarted my machine. However trash still cannot trash any files.
Can anyone help me? We don't have Apple Store in Hong Kong yet, so there is no Genius bar I can go to.
Thanks!

I actually did some googling since I didn't find any others with the same issues on the Apple Discussions.
I found out it was some app that I tried to trash but it was still open. So it was corrupted and there was issues with it. I tried a few suggestions on Terminal but didn't do anything to resolve the issue.
However, I downloaded this app and it worked.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/25821/raw-trash
You can see people are complaining that it can be done on the finder easily, but they don't tell you how.
It fixed my problem with the files so I am so happy.
If someone can put the right Terminal commands rather than have to pay for the Raw Trash (if it is that easy) then please let me know.
@Nikolai Yde - I didn't try it this way. Did you use Disk Utility from a Lion boot disk?

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[jamie@simula vhosts]$ groups
wheel video audio optical storage camera jamie sshusers www-data
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drwxr-xr-x 5 jamie www-data 4096 Aug 4 21:58 doc.demurgatroid.net
drwxr-xr-x 2 jamie jamie 4096 Aug 19 15:14 testdir
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drwxr-xr-x 65 jamie jamie 4096 Aug 19 15:16 ..
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drwxr-xr-x 65 jamie jamie 4096 Aug 19 15:16 ..
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drwxr-xr-x 65 jamie jamie 4096 Aug 19 15:16 ..
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udev 10M 260K 9.8M 3% /dev
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[jamie@simula ~]$ ls -al /.Trash-1000/files/
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drwx------ 3 jamie jamie 4096 Aug 19 22:03 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 jamie jamie 4096 Aug 19 22:03 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 jamie jamie 4096 Aug 19 21:57 testdir2
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