IPhoto does not delete photos.

Hi All,
I'm having some trouble deleting photos from iPhoto. My steps for deleting photos are this.
1. Find the photo I want to delete in events (have tried this in the 'photo' tab also)
2. Select the photo and press cmd - backspace to delete the photo.
3. Empty the iPhoto trash.
4. This is where I get confused, I check back in events/photos and its still there.
Why does it not delete from my computer?
I am running snow leopard = 10.6.2
And obviously iPhoto '09.
The same happened on my parents Mac Mini downstairs running the same version of snow leopard and iPhoto.
Please help,
Ollie

By backspace you mean the Delete key, right? Do you or have you confirmed that the photos are in the iPhoto Trash before emptying it via the IPhoto->Empty iPhoto Trash menu option?
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