Deleting songs from hard driive not in iTunes library with iTunes 10

I have multiple user profiles on my computer so in order to prevent loss of hard drive space from duplicate songs we keep all our music in 1 folder and tell itunes not to copy songs when importing. The problem I have now is that any time a song has to be deleted within itunes I'm not asked if I want to move that actual song to the trash. I understand that's because it's not actually in the itunes media folder but I was hoping if someone knew of a way that itunes can actually manage the music files even though they're not in the media folder? I guess you can say I'm being lazy but I hate going out of itunes, locating the file, dragging it to the trash, and then emptying the trash (what man likes taking the garbage out?). I would love it if there was an easy way to have iTunes do it all for me like before.
Thanks for any and all assistance!

Check your iTunes preferences before deciding to delete anything. Go to Edit Preferences>Advanced and make sure that the box "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library" is checked. If it is then iTunes has been copying your files as you added them and it's safe to delete the originals. If it's not checked then only a reference to the song location has been added and you need to keep the original file in place.

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