Yes as you found that`s the only way to delete - shot by shot.
I was so annoyed at the cumbersome nature of the site that I took all my shots off one after the other and only use my gallery now to put in my weekend comp shots and link to larger lickable pics through that. As you say Flickr shows a much better way of organising and getting comments etc than can ever be the case on here Shame really as in old days it was quite good.
