Weird File in Trash Caused by QuickTime

Hey All,
I have the most peculiar problem. I exported a movie from iMovie '08 through QuickTime. I converted to AVI format. When I opened the file in QuickTime, the program would crash. There was some kind of weird error that caused a file to appear in my Trash Can. The file has characters unlike I have ever seen before. The following is what it appears as.
␀␀␀õ␀␀.õ␀
The slashes are actually the letters NVL in a diagonal. The problem arises in the fact that I cannot delete this file. I have run DiskWarrior and Onyx to try and fix this problem. The file seems non-existent. It is 0 kb, and Mac OS X says that the file was modified Dec. 31, 1903, which is not even a valid date in the OS. Does anyone know what this error is? If not, is there any other way to try and remove the file? The trash always appears full because of the file. I have also recently downloaded MPEG StreamClip, a video conversion and editing program. I was thinking this could be a contributing factor. I'd appreciate any help I can get.

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