Deleting files that no longer exist.

Maybe someone can help me. I know you've all seen when a music file no longer exists and it shows up in iTunes with the little .
I just lost an external harddrive recently, requiring me to update all of my music libraries. WMP works fine in that I do a search and it AUTOMATICALLY deletes all files that don't exist. My only option, as far as I can tell, in iTunes is to delete these files from the media library manually.
Someone please tell me there's a better way and Apple just tucked it somewhere inconspicuous. I really don't feel like deleting 10,000 music files manually.
Or does iTunes actually suck that much?

I've created a script that will remove all the entries with exclamation marks.
Go to my iTunes scripts page and follow the link to download Perl. Install Perl, then download and run the script "itunesremovenotfound.pl".
HTH,
Rob

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