PowerBook G4 Desktop issue

I was trying to drag a few pictures from iPhoto to my desktop and accidentally dragged all of them to my desktop. There are thousands. Now everything from my desktop has disappeared. Icons will reappear if i happen to click on my desktop and they are there, but it's like an easter egg hunt! I can see everything that is on my desktop when I view my desktop in the Finder menu. I have tried to just erase them from my desktop but i get a message that says "Some of the items you are moving are in use by another application. Moving these items can cause problems with the application using them. Are you sure you ant to move these items?" This even appears when all applications are closed. I don't want to risk messing up the files.
What should I do?
Thanks.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Welcome to the Apple discussions.
You've probably already brought up iPhoto and confirmed that the original pictures are still in iPhoto.
Have you tried a safe boot (reboot holding the shift key down), which brings up a minimal system, does some disk cleanup, and doesn't load login items. Assuming the pictures on the desktop are copies, bring up finder and start dragging small groups to the trash. By doing a safe boot, you've hopefully not started an application that may have been using one or more of the pictures. Empty the trash to delete the pictures.

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