On my stock rhel5 login, I see two different trash icons nautilus uses the Bluecurve one, but the trashapplet uses the one from the gnome icon theme.
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Fixed in redhat-artwork-5.0.5-24.el5
redhat-artwork-5.0.9-1.el5 included with 20061218.1 trees.