FCP X - How to change the length of a project

Hi everyone,
Have been working on a music video in FCP X. I'm at the stage now where the cut is done, and I want to proceed to do a little color grading and then final export. I have a strange problem that I can't seem to get around, and the manual (if you could even call it that) is decidedly unhelpful on this front.
When I started working on the video, I placed the song in the primary storyline and had it copied three times along the way. This was so I could have extra "versions" of the song later in the timeline to test out ideas.
Now that I'm nearly done, I've deleted the extra copies of the song that were appended at the end, and they've been replaced with gap slugs. Nothing I seem to do can make them go away, I select them and hit delete, and they just stay there. So then when I export my video, because FCP X doesn't allow you to do anything other than export the _entire_ project, I end up with like 8 extra minutes of black at the end, which I then have to delete from my final QT movie. Obviously it's a surmountable problem, but it's just really annoying.
Anyone know how I can actually tell FCP X where the end of my project is?
Cheers!

Hey, thanks for both the responses.
I had tried using both delete keys (the one next to the "=" key and the one that actually says "delete" on the extended keyboard, but no dice. I also tried the suggestion of dragging a clip onto the gap and then deleting it, no luck either.
But then these suggestions made me think of trying another approach - I selected the gap clip in question and then went into the "edit" menu in the menu bar, and chose "delete" from there. That did the trick. And in doing so, I saw that the keystroke that's marked next to this command in the edit menu is "shift delete" (the delete is shown as the backward pointing box with an x in it). This also explains why I never seemed to be able to delete an effect that I added to a clip (I was always just deactivating them), because neither of the delete keys on their own were the right key command.
So I don't know if the key commands on my install of FCP X just happen to be set up in a different way to others, or I simply didn't realize that while simply hitting "delete" for clips was sufficient, you needed to use a different "delete" key cluster for other classes of items like gaps and effects.
Anyway, got it sorted now. Cheers for the input!

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