Unable to use trash - Things are thrown away immediately

I am unable to use the trash on my system. As soon as I move something to the trash, I get a warning "The item 'yadayada' will be removed immediately. Are you sure you want to continue?" This is normal when I want to trash something from a remote server in my network, but I get this all the time, everywhere on my boot drive. (My external drives that don't register permissions are fine)
I don't care too much about the trash, but it is annoying to confirm everything. And of course my main concern is that it is not normal behaviour, which often precedes big problems...
Any clues?

Hi Stereotrope and Macjack,
Thanks for responding.
I'm afraid that is not the case, Macjack.
I called Apple Support and the support guy helped me through some steps, some of which I already tried (repairing permissions, clearing caches, etc), others were new to me (deleting prefs, booting in safe mode), but none of them helped. So he advised me to do an archive and install.
I'll call back on monday if that didn't help.
I'll keep you informed, Stereotrope, if I figured out what is the case.

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