Since upgrading I can't empty my trash...thoughts?

Since rebooting after the upgrade to Lion I have some recovered files in the trash and they won't delete out.....any ideas?

Via trial and error: After dragging a bunch of files out of Trash to my desktop...using the terminal command did not do it for my issue...I isolated the offending file. I deleted everything else. (I'd repeatedly had to use "force quit" to relaunch Finder as Empty Trash continued hanging forever until I isolated the offender.) I pulled the last of the files onto my desktop. In it was a folder containing the name :_MACOSX  I dragged it to desktop, changed the name to "crap" (use whatever you want, as long as you remove the macosx name) and trashed it again. Hit empty trash and voila it's gone and Trash is empty

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