Trash and locked pictures problem

I have a problem with deleting stuff from my trash - i know this is a common problem but I have tried EVERYTHING!
I have some pictures that are locked and some I can unlock but some I cant, it says that I dont have the access (I can only read) but I am the administrator on the computer. So I cant go to get info and change the box to unlock them.
I have tried taking them out and putting them in a file on my desktop to unlock them and it is just duplicating them. So I now have about 700 locked files.
I have tried using terminal and dragging the contents of the trash in and using random commands that I dont understand. I have tried sudo (think thats right) commands.
I have also repaired my permissions in disk utility.
I'm using leopard and my version is 10.5.8.
And that annoying press the option key when you press delete but that just doesn't work.
Please help I'm desperate!

Welcome to the Apple discussions.
One way to force delete everything in the trash is to use OnyX. You can download it from http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english/apps.html . It's also a good tool to do cleaning and disk maintenance. You should have a disk backup before using any disk maintenance software.

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