Stupid Trash refuses to fully empty!!! ughh

ok so my trash can refuses to empty ive tried everything from normal emptying to secure emptying to repairing permissons, repair disk. ive used onyx to reset everything and i dont know what else to do please help me!! its very frustrating
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Read this:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/trash.html
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