User Account Picture Question

In the drop-down menu of +System Preferences>Accounts+ that appears when you click the user account picture, there is another menu that is labeled "Recent Pictures" where there are some older pictures you have used are located.
My question is if there is a way to delete these recent pictures, as there are some that are doubles and others I simply do not want. This is really annoying me, and I can't find the directory to delete the images (if there even is one).
I've tried going to +Macintosh HD>Users>christianwilson>Library>Images>iChat Recent Pictures+ and deleting the pictures there. That only seems to make the images not appear when I click the thumbnail when viewing "Recent Pictures" on +System Preferences>Accounts+, but this does not delete the thumbnail.
In the directory I mentioned above a file exists called Recents.plist, if I delete that will it remove both the images and thumbnails from System Preferences?

set the picture to what you want, close system preferences and delete everything in the directory you mentioned (including the plist). then open system preferences. the recent pictures list should be empty.

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