Completely Deleting Photos - How To!!??

I have been reading and I know this has been covered a bit here, but I am unable to get the results expected.
I need to delete over 5000 photos from my iPhoto library and get them off my hard drive. I have searched here for instructions and have tried the following....
1.iPhoto->select album-->highlight all pics in album-->right-click, delete.
2.delete album
3.Use finder to navigate to iphoto library-->originals-->search for all photos I just deleted from library-->delete from originals folder.
4.Empty iPhoto Trash
5.Empty HD Trash
6. Restart
7. Open iPhoto...Album is gone, but pictures are still in library!
Please, please, does someone have a one or two, or even three step process for deleting photos COMPLETELY??
I have investigated a program called iPhoto Diet, but to date it has not been upgraded for iphoto 6.
Thanks for any help, advice, specific steps, etc....
Adam

This is gonna sound awkards, but I need totaly the opposite results. This is what happened:
I just wanted to delete about 300 photos from the library, so I moved the desired ones to a specific album. Left the undesired ones in the library.Chose Select All , then Delete, and then emptied my trash. However, when I went back to see the albums..THERE WERE NO PICTURES. Almost collapsed.
So tried to look for them in the hard drive and found 56 MB ( about the size of my 2000 and something photos) stored somewhere in the computer, but can't get to restore them.
Also tried to create a photo library1 , with the hope that they would come back, but nothing happened.Please help. As you can see I'm a novice in Mac.
Please any advice on how to recover my photos will be greatly appreciated.
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