Can you rebuild a library to include all songs in your music folder?

Hey good people,
My copy of iTunes was running on an iBook with my library on an external hard drive. Since the drive was often unlugged, I routinely got excalamtion point signs by files that iTunes thought were missing.
They weren't missing. The drive was just unplugged.
Well, over the years, I got many "faux-missing" files confused with actually missing files, and deleted a number of songs from my library that actually existed safe and sound on my hard drive.
Now I want to make my library right. I want to have an accurate list of everything that's on the drive, only I don't know how to do that.
I made the mistake of dragging the entire library back into iTunes, and succeded it duplicating my entire library. There must be some way to fix this that I'm just not seeing yet.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

I made the mistake of dragging the entire library back into iTunes, and succeded it duplicating my entire library.
By "library", do you mean the' iTunes Music folder location' as set in the preferences?
When dragging (or adding by the File menu) this folder to iTunes, recent versions of iTunes don't create duplicate entries in the Library or duplicate files.
What kind of duplicates do you have? Duplicate files or duplicate entries in the Library.
M

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