How to delete photo's from both Iphoto and source (external HD) at the same time

I've seen a few postings on this but none seem to answer the quetion.  Sorry if this is a duplicate and I coudn't find the answer.
I have an external HD with over 4GB of pictures in various folders and subfolders.  I would like to import one folder at a time and go through the photo's using iPhoto to choose which ones I want to keep and which ones I don't.  If I come accross a picture I don't like I would like to delete it in iPhoto and at the same time have it deleted from my external HD.  I have tried the following with no success:
1. Import photo's to iPhone and delete photo's I don't want.  I did this in the photo's view, not events or albums.
2. After deleting the photo's I empited the iPhoto recyling bin which then sends the photo's to my Macbook pro recycle bin
3. I then emptied the macbook pro recyle bin. 
From what I've read this is how you're supposed to be able to delete photo's permantently form you HD or External HD.  The photo's I delete never end up getting erased from my external HD though.  So now I'm still stuck with a back up of a bunch of pictures I don't want on my external HD.  They are gone from iPhoto but this doesn't help or avoid taking up space.  This only cleans up iPhoto library but not my actual external HD.
So am I correct that there actually isn't any way to do this other than going through the photo's on my external HD using Finder and deleting them before importing to iPhoto?

A managed library is the default type that iPhoto creates.  Make sure you have the option selected to copy photos into iPhoto when importing:
was hoping it would at least keep thumbnails of all my photo's.
I use a DAM (digital asset management) program which will do exactly what you want: Media Pro 1.  It creates catalogs (libraries) of thumbnails, up to 640 x 480, that is uses to manage the photos.  You can do anything to the photos except edit, slideshows, or anything that requires the full source image when the source files are not available.  You can arrange  photos in Catalog Sets (like iPhoto albums), add keywords, etc. to them even when the sorce files are not available.  When the source files are available you can write that metadata to the source file and rename files. You can use Media Pro in demo mode for about a month I believe. 
A catalog file for 44,000 photos (178 GB) with the thumbnails set for 320 pixels at high resolution is only 1.5 GB. The larger the thumbnail selected the larger the catalog file will be. 

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