Deleting photos from iphone - not good results

I tried deleting all my photos from my iphone using itunes and the sync system. well it did delete all the photos from my mobile me account, but only about 1/4 of the photos on the phone were deleted and some of them are really messed up. while doing all this the phone locked up and until the battery went dead the phone was junk. what are the odds? Anyone have any idea how i can delete the rest of the photos from my phone? peace to you all!

Hi,
Thanks for the answer. So if I want one pic from a folder, I would have to basically create another folder with this one pic. The only problem with this solution, is I want to keep all the pics in this one folder (Picasa) to organize. I'm new to iPod and I can't believe this is the only way to delete pic(s) from an iPod.
Thanks again.

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