"please enter your password, then press pound"??

I am using Skype for Mac, version 7.2 (412).  I received the notice that if I don't use my credit, I will lose it.  So, I tried to do what I always do, which is to call my mobile.  When I do, I here the message shown in the subject above.  Thoughts on what I am doing wrong?

Hello
I have just noticed today that when I try and move a file to the trash can I get the message:
Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this
We do not have a password to do this and it was working fine before
The terminal command sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash does not work and gives a permission denied result
MyMac:~ user$ ls -als (where user is the username - changed for this post)
total 40
0 drwxr-xr-x+ 18 user  staff    612  7 Jan 00:05 .
0 drwxr-xr-x   6 root     admin    204 29 Oct 18:04 ..
0 -rw-------   1 user  staff      3 29 Oct 17:21 .CFUserTextEncoding
32 -rw-r--r--@  1 user  staff  15364  8 Jan 21:43 .DS_Store
0 drwx------  12 root     staff    408  8 Jan 21:43 .Trash
0 -rw-------   1 user  staff      0  7 Nov 23:19 .Xauthority
0 drwxr-xr-x@  6 user  staff    204  4 Jan 15:45 .aladin
8 -rw-------   1 user  staff    256  8 Jan 21:44 .bash_history
0 drwx------   3 user  staff    102 31 Oct 22:47 .cups
0 drwxr-xr-x   5 user  staff    170  7 Nov 23:18 .fontconfig
0 drwx------+  4 user  staff    136 22 Dec 13:33 Desktop
0 drwx------+ 24 user  staff    816  8 Jan 21:43 Documents
0 drwx------+ 10 user  staff    340  8 Jan 20:43 Downloads
0 drwx------@ 43 user  staff   1462  8 Nov 17:14 Library
0 drwx------+  3 user  staff    102 29 Oct 17:21 Movies
0 drwx------+  5 user  staff    170  1 Nov 22:19 Music
0 drwx------+ 46 user  staff   1564  8 Jan 21:29 Pictures
0 drwxr-xr-x+  6 user  staff    204  8 Jan 21:04 Public
I did a quick check of the permissions and .Trash is assigned to the root and not the user.
Can still delete files dropping them on the trash can, but they totally disappear and cannot be seen to be eptied later or restored as required.
Any ideas how to sort this or what the problem/cause is? On Mac OS X 10.7.2

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