Very slow safari, slow system trash won't empty

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Trying to clean up my 09 MacBookPro. safari has been pretty slow and i keep getting what i like to call 'the wheel of death' on my desktop on opening safari or searching or opening some apps.
i Have purged my Mac to free up some RAM as it was running on next to nothing. Diskspace is pretty good as backed up all my Movies, homed vids and music to external hard drive.
I have stopped my dashboard temporarily to free up space from apps running in background
Having massive problems trying to delete trash. Only as of today. tryong to delete spotify spotify app, adobe installer and flip4mac (dont know what that is) tried to delete all at once and tried each one seperatly. Can not stop deleting trash as it take ages to stop. only way to close is force restart computer. Have done cmd + R to acces disk utility and everything is fine with no probs.
PLEASE HELP --- ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!!
Update - not concerned about flip4mac apparently mean i can watch wmv files

PS I AM NOT DOING A SECURE EMPTY when deleting trash
these are the 5 items i am trying to delete
file://localhost/Users/NR/.Trash/wall%20art.jpg
file://localhost/Users/NR/.Trash/uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg
file://localhost/Users/NR/.Trash/SpotifyInstaller.zip
file://localhost/Users/NR/.Trash/Spotify.app/

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