Trash basket size in Snow Leopard

I have two Mac Book Pros - one a late first generation model and the second a first generation unibody. Both have 10.6.1 installed on them. I have two other desktop Mac systems with 10.6.1 but they are not affected by the problem I describe below.
Since installing 10.6 and then 10.6.1 I've noticed that whenever I go to empty the trash (simple empty, not secure), the number of files in the trash is exponentially more than what the trash folder shows. For example, today it showed 2 files in the folder/basket and when I emptied it, it deleted 751 files. Other times I've had 5 or 6 files in the basket/folder and the delete involved thousands of files. Since this happens only on the Mac Book Pros, I don't quite get what is going on here. This never occurred under any iteration of Leopard and it doesn't occur on desktops with Snow Leopard installed. Both Mac Book Pros have large hard drives with at least 70% free space on each.
Thoughts, suggestions, observations?

What makes this question curious and befuddling is that this issue ONLY arises on my MacBook Pros, not on my iMac, my MacBook Black, or my Mac Pro. When the trash basket says it has 3 files, it has three files. On the MBPs under Snow Leopard, the number of files reported in the trash basket bear no relationship to the actual number of files. This morning (just a half an hour ago), I was using my Unibody Mac Book Pro. It said I had 4 files in my trash basket. Being the compulsive type who doesn't like clutter, I went to delete them. When the basket started to empty, it told me THEN that it had 3951 files to empty. It took nearly 20 minutes to empty and got the machine so hot that the fans started up full blast. From a full battery, it took me down to 0:35. The moment the trash was emptied, the battery indicator literally jumped to 2:05 and the heat dissipated quickly. While it is emptying trash, it is using up many cycles of CPU and the machine slows to a halt. This occurs on a 2.6 GHz Core 2 and a 2.8 GHz Unibody. It occurs on no other machines, suggesting it is an SL/MBP interaction. I can't figure out what is going on. I can't even get a listing of what is in the trash basket except for the listed files.
If this happened only once or twice after the SL upgrade, I wouldn't be concerned about it, but it happens every time I use either machine, which is often.
Anyone have an alternative explanation of what is going on and how to prevent it?

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