Deleting duplicates....not so helpful

ok, i have gone through and deleted a ton of duplicates and in turn have received a ton of deleted originals, represented not-so-kindly by the little '!' symbol. are those songs lost for good if the trash bin has been since emptied? or is there a magical way of retrieving those files back?

What do you mean "the originals"? The first copy of the song you added?
Every song listed in your iTunes library should have it's own MP3 file on your hard drive. So if you leave one song, it should have an MP3 file to play.
You're losing me.
You can "tag" the songs you want to keep. First "deactivate" all the songs. CMD/Click (the Apple key next to the space bar) in one of the checkboxes. This will turn off all your songs. Now go through your library and find the songs you can determine to be "originals" and click the check box for each song. Now show duplicates and delete the un-checked songs. When they're deleted view the entire Library again and CMD/Click an un-checked box to turn on all your songs.
Tracy

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<u><b>Deleting Adjacent Duplicate Entries</b></u>
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