@thompson84 – I tend to agree with you. It shouldn’t be necessary to have this level of knowledge just to uninstall a plug-in. Although it seems W3TC is no different. I installed that, had serious problems with it – much worse than WP Super Cache – and had to go through a similar procedure to uninstall it. At least by then I knew what I was doing! It seems as long as cache plug-ins are working they’re great. All bets are off when they’re not!
If anyone else has this problem and needs an answer. I ended up deleting it on the hosting site rather than through the WP Panel. This is the only plugin I know of that requires knowledge of hosting to uninstall it.