Description of Problem:
  The ~/.gnome-desktop/Trash file (.desktop file for the trashcan icon) becomes
corrupted with binary data.  Destroying the file and restarting Nautilus creates
a new file which also may be corrupted.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
  $ rpm -q nautilus ; uname -a
  nautilus-1.0.6-15
  Linux speare9 2.4.18-4smp #1 SMP Thu May 2 17:39:13 EDT 2002 i686 unknown

How Reproducible:
  Two similar Athlon machines, one SMP one UP machine.  Developers haven't seen
the same problem.

Actual Results:
  Icon for Trashcan may get new title, or opening icon may fail due to bad
location specified in the .desktop file.  Investigating the
~/.gnome-desktop/Trash file shows some lines of proper human-readable
properties, followed by some random binary data such as fragments of other
strings or unreadable characters.  Corruption is different each time.

  [speare@speare9:~/.gnome-desktop]$ cat Trash
  [Desktop Entry]
  Encoding=Legacy-Mixed
  Name=Trash
  Type=X-nautilus-trash
  X-Nautilus-Icon=trash-empty
  URL=trash:
  X-naut'

Expected Results:
  The contents of this file should remain fully human-readable, and the
properties should not become corrupted through normal use of the Nautilus process.

[Per conversation with 'alex' on irc.gnome.org #Nautilus.]