I've lost desktop's control

[Darkfirephoinix]

Hello everyone, I am here looking for help with my Ubuntu(hardy) desktop;

A few days ago I tried to delete (send to trash or delete) some files in my desktop but it seems that my account doesn't have the permission to do that,i cant even create a folder in desktop (or download anything to that folder) I've tried to run Nautilus as root to delete the files, but the desktop appears empty, also i have tried to create a folder in nautilus as root but i cant do that.( it seems that even the root account has lost control over the desktop) I can send to trash files from other folders, the problem is only on desktop.

Edit;I forgot to mention a folder with an arrow pointing to northwest (virtual north west) is in my desktop, I don't know if this can be causing the problem

Any suggestion?(thanks in advance)

If my English is bad sorry, not native speaker

c ya

[fornix]

Please paste the output of this command

$ ls -l ~ | grep Desktop

[Darkfirephoinix]

Here is it;

drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2007-11-15 10:21 Desktop

[puppywhacker]

Your ~/Desktop is owned by root, so anybody else is only allowed to read, but not write. You can change back the ownership with chown

sudo chown `whoami` ~/Desktop

[Darkfirephoinix]

Thank you very much both, it worked!!
:)