Deleted Song Keeps Reappearing!

Hi all
I downloaded a track onto my iPhone whilst out and about via iTunes.  I now want to remove the song, but it's proving to be ridiculously tedious.
In iTunes I see the song in my music library, so I highlight it, CMD Del and remove the file.  When I click on my iPhone in the menu, I go into music and I see the track in manually added songs at the bottom - I remove it from there.  I go into Purchased on the left hand side - I delete it from there.
My songs are 'Sync only checked songs' and the song doesn't appear in any of the other lists, so it's not checked.  At this point, there should be no trace of this track on my mac.
As soon as I sync it though to get the song off my phone library, iTunes puts it back in to the library and it wont leave my phone, I just cannot get rid of it!
Does anybody know where I am going wrong?!
Thanks
PS:  I am running the latest version of iTunes, iPhone 4 on iOS 5.

Thank you for the reply. But I never had a 'Media' folder.
The 'Media' Folder iTunes is referring to is the iTunes Music folder, as defined in the Preferences. iTunes manages that folder by itself when clicking 'keep iTunes Media folder organised'.
And the deletion of the file is not the problem. it deletes alright as Taffam, sigep440, mattfromymm, iBuchon and myself described.
checking in the finder - the folder of the selected song is empty. gone. Nothing in there.
BUT – once you synch again, the track is either redownloaded or transferred back from the iPhone as a new track. And that is the annoying part!

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