(Not) Disappearing icons?

After the pre-installation of Tiger and update-ing to 10.4.11 something strange happens with the icons in the Finder and Trash. When I download a file from Safari, an icon xxxxx.download appears in Finder. But when the file has been downloaded, this icon remain there and when I click on it it disappear! If I want to find the file I have to open the Downloads window from Safari and find it from there.
The other issue is with the Trash. When I try to empty the recycle bin the icons stay there and the Trash icon is as a full one. The files are deleted, but the icons remain in the Trash.
Is there anything I can do other than preinstalling the whole OS again?

Ok, Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, drag that file out again, reboot when it finishes.

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