Best practice deleting software packages from Altiris

Hello all,

Can someone confirm for me the best practice method for deleting software packages and/or releases?  I have a colleague that deleted right from Manage, Software -> Software products but cancelled the operation during the process.  My feeling is that it was not completely removed.  I checked in the vRM_Package_Item table and the object still exists.  It also still exists in Manage, All Resources, Default, All Resources, Package.

So first off, what is the proper method to delete a software package/release?

Second, how can I verify the package was completely deleted from the console?

Thanks in advance.