Files/Directories that won't delete

I've been working on a vbulletin upgrade all weekend on my dedicated server - and I have a directory full of images that I cannot get rid of - it won't delete through SSH, ws_ftp, or the file manager on Cpanel.

Some of the image files I managed to finally force delete through ssh - but I still can't get rid of the directory itself.

I also can't upload the correct images into the existing directory, overwriting the existing files and/subdirectories.

To force delete teh individual files I SSH'd in and used

del *.gif*

after which it prompted at each file for a y/n, and it DID dump them.

When I try to do the same thing with the directory itself (which is now empty) I get

del aqualav
rm: remove directory `aqualav'? y
rm: cannot remove directory `aqualav': Is a directory

How can I get rid of these directories?

 

 

 

 

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