Automatically deduping duplicate songs - is it possible?

I copied my libary from a laptop to my PC, using an external hard drive to transfer the files. Somehow almost all, but not every song, was duplicated once or even twice on the hard drive, but i did not know this until i'd impoted the contents onto my PC.
When I go into "show duplicate songs" i get the list of dupes, but have to delete the dupes manually (time consuming). Is there a way of automatically deleteing anything that itunes suspects may be a dupe?
I can't simply start again because I no longer have the laptop, the only place with my libary is my hard drive (dupes and all).

I know my friend has had duplicate songs on his computer and found a program that will scan your hard drive for duplicate songs and allow you to verify and delete. (http://noclone.net/Duplicate_Mp3.asp) The problem in the library is probably solved the way you already are doing it. Allow iTunes to find the copies and select them all and delete them. If you do scan your drive and delete dupes, then you can delete your entire library and re-import all the non-duplicate songs.

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