Zombie Page (simply won’t die – please help)

I am able to add, edit and delete pages in my installation of wordpress (www.kaushik.net/avinash). Except one page, that simply won’t die.

In Manage Pages I select delete and get the proper pop-up that says “are you sure?”:

http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/page-trying_to_delete.png

I say yes but nothing happens. I see this:

http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/page-trying_to_delete2.png

Notice at the bottom it says processing, but nothing happens.

When I go back to Manage Pages it is always there but on the site I get “sorry no posts match”.

Here is the line in my theme sidebar.php file that is pulling the list of pages and presenting it on my blog:

<?php wp_list_pages(‘sort_column=menu_order&title_li=’); ?>

I have read many posts here and tried ’em all but simply can’t seem to get rid of this page. One of the posts recommended that I edit my mysql database.

I am a huge novice I found it on my server and somehow found a row in wp_posts that refers to this zombie page, id # 39 in this image:

http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/page-php_my_admin.png

and I hit the little red x icon, it says “do you want to delete” and I say yes and nothing happens.

Any ideas how I can kill this zombie page and get on with my life? Thanks so much in advance.

PS: I have tried to switch off all the plugins, no dice. I have switched back to the original wordpress theme, nothing. I have also tried this in IE and firefox, nada. Just to repeat, I am able to add and delete new / other pages.