I really don't think he was concerned. I think he was trying to be a smartass.
I posted a simple question and got what I wanted. I went with the join with a numbers table solution and it's working mighty fine.
I know that deleting info should not be done just like that. In this case I have to work with what I have and frankly I don't think deleting one row in a pretty much isolated table will cause any trouble. Of course it would be better if they had a status column, but as I said before, that's the way the DB was made.
I appretiate all of your inputs.