Deleting modified photos

I've deleted several rolls and individual photos from within iPhoto6 that I no longer want, but now I see that any that were modified still exist in the Modified folder of the iPhoto library (when I use Finder to locate them) although there are no longer corresponding photos in the Originals folder and neither the originals nor the modified appear in iPhoto. I had just assumed that when a photo was deleted from within iPhoto, any modified versions were as well, but that appears not to be the case. Should I delete them from the Modified folder via Finder? This seems incredibly awkward and time-consuming, not to mention the pain of having to identify which need to be deleted. I also have read that messing with iPhoto through Finder can be problematic, but I don't know how else to make the deletions since the photos no longer appear in iPhoto. Next time I suppose I could "revert to original" before deleting (I'll have to check if you can mass-revert a roll or multiple photos), although even that seems a convoluted way of accomplishing a simple deletion. And that won't help with the retrospective deletion I want to do now.
Suggestions?
MacBook ; G4 iMac   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   iPhoto6

Thanks for the reply. I did some further looking and experimentation and it appeared to only involve full rolls that I had deleted. I tried importing another small batch, modifying one photo, and then deleting the roll and it worked as it should. I also discovered a roll that no longer appears in iPhoto, but that has folders in both Originals and Modified. Although I don't remember doing it in this manner, I can only guess that I did delete the rolls/folders in question from within Finder and that is what created the problem. I know I made the deletions shortly after starting to use iPhoto and probably thought its contents could/should be managed like all other files.
I'll take your advice and leave things as they are - I don't want to mess things up any more than I already have. There aren't that many folders involved and they don't take up much space.
Thanks again - for showing me that it was likely my own foolishness that caused the problem.

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