Trying to delete iPhoto 6 thumbsegment.data files crashes Mac OS 10.4

Summary:
Whenever I try to delete any of the thumb files from the iPhoto directory on my internal hard drive or my external backup drive, it crashes the computer (screen scrolls dark then says "Have to restart, hold button for several seconds" in multiple languages). This is true if I try to delete any single file or if I try to delete all the files (thumb32segment.data, thumb64segment.data, thumbJPGsegment.data). The panic message is:
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x00102854): jnl: transaction too big (1582592 >= 1572352 bytes, bufsize 8192, tr 0x2733f7c bp 0x280286d0)
The actual "transaction too big" numbers can vary. All my software is current as of last night. I'm running 10.4.6 and I have 150G drive with +10G free space, 1.25 GHz, 1GB memory.
Background:
I'm one of the people who experienced the extraordinarily sluggish version of iPhoto 6. In trying to fix it, I rebuilt my system from the hard drive up (including reinstalling everything)--no good. Apparently it was a known bug, a fix came out and my world was better. Until I tried to back up iPhoto.
I back up to an external hard drive by dragging and dropping.
1) Once I was sure the patch worked, I dragged the iPhoto folder from my internal drive to my backup drive...and the system crashed.
2) Figuring it was the old, buggy version causing the problem I dragged the old, external backup iPhoto folder to the trash and tried to empty the trash...and the system crashed.
3) After a file-by-file test, I determined it was the initial 2 thumbs (thumb32 and thumb64) from the buggy version causing the problem. One of the reasons I pay the Mac premium is because I don't want to be a sys admin, but nonetheless I went to Ihnatko's Mac OS X book and found the sudo command for forcing the trash to empty files (sudo chflags nouchg ~/.Trash/*), executed the command, emptied the trash...and the system crashed.
4) So I moved the old thumbs into a different folder on my external drive and dragged and dropped a backup. No problem. Until I tried to do it a second time after my next update to iPhoto and...the system crashed.
So now I have:
* old external backup (thumb32, thumb64)
* new external backup (thumb32, thumb64, thumbJPG)
* new internal source (thumb32, thumb64, thumbJPG)
and I can't backup or delete any of these files without the system crashing.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can get rid of the extraneous thumb files and get back to doing a simple drag-and-drop backup without crashing my system? (And yes, I've learned my lesson not to be an early adopter of iLife...but that doesn't help me now.)
FWIW, I'm having another problem with iPhoto or iTunes/iPod whereby iTunes/iPod has stopped recognizing iPhoto albums (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=530034&tstart=0). This happened long after the problem I've described here, but I'm including the link in case it's helpful.
G4   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

Good morning Old Toad.
I did as you suggested:
1) Booted from install CD.
2) Ran Disk Utilities on internal hard drive--no repairs necessary. For good measure, did the same thing on external drive. Also no repairs necessary.
3) Checked software update--no updates found. About this Mac said I was already running 10.4.7. For good measure, I downloaded the latest and installed it. Since it let me run the install, I'm not sure if I installed something new or reinstalled what I already had.
4) I rebooted from CD, ran disk utilities, ran repair disk--no repairs necessary. Repaired permissions and a lot of permissions repaired.
5) Tried to delete the files and the same old thing happened: kernel panic. The specific message:
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x00102A08): jnl: transaction too big (1587712 >= 1572352 bytes, bufsize 8192, tr 0x29f1fb0 bp 0x2801de40)
So there's no change in my status.
I'm trying to delete the files because:
A) They already take .5 Gb.
B) I can't get rid of them ever. If I move the problem files to a different folder, I can only do one successful drag-and-drop backup to the external drive until the "new" thumb segments become unerasable just like the previous versions and crash the system.
C) I can't even "just" drag and drop every file/folder except the thumbs, because that ends up crashing the system as well. So I have to drag and drop every file/folder in the iPhoto hierarchy individually. Which makes me less inclined to backup, which defeats the purpose of a backup.
D) After the iPhoto fiasco I'm just crabby about all the Apple screw-ups I'm experiencing and I want to get them fixed.
Thanks for your help. Any additional suggestions would be appreciated.
G4   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

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