100's of aliases!

While searching a number (2007) in spotlight, it found 100's of broken aliases to various jpgs, pdfs, etc. files. Of course, some active files also show up. Any number I enter into spotlight does the same thing. Some are old files I recognize, most are not. Clicking on the "dotted lined" broken aliases produces the usual "delete" or "fix" alias. I tried deleting some of them, but they still show up on the very next spotlight search. Additionally, there's too many of them to do this individually!
Three questions:
1) has anyone else noticed this phenomenon?
2) could this be taking up significant HD space. I've posted previously that I was having a problem with missing HD storage;
3) is there any way to delete broken aliases en masse?
I would appreciate any help!
CC

sorry it's been so long since responding. I have been out of town and upon returning home, Hurricane Ike visited and left me powerless and appears to have sent my G4 to the great computing grounds in the sky (see my post on other hardware forum: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8097189#8097189).
Although it may be a mute point at this time, before the untimely passing of my computer, I discovered something very interesting about the many alias' on my machine. For some reason, files with numbers in their title in my administrative account had matching, nonworking alias' in my non-administrative account! In other words, to see private file names in my administrative account, all I had to do was put a number into Spotlight in my non-administrative account! This greatly decreases the privacy of this administrative account! If I have a jpeg named "photo of boss in compromised position 2007", I can see an "alias" of that file in the other account by searching for "2007" in Spotlight! Has anyone else noted this? Can someone explain this to me? This seems like a really bad idea to me.

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