Deleting Old iTunes files w/ lost file locations

Does anyone know of a quick efficient way to take you entire iTunes library, identify which song files "original file location cannot be found", and then remove them.
I attempted to restore my library from a iPod I backed up, but no dice. Now I'm left with a ton of songs I can't play because the directory location is lost or they have that obnoxious by them. I really don't want to sort through the whole god forsaken library manually to figure out which ones are playable and which ones are not.
Grazi,

Go to the Apple Developer's site and download the iTunes COM for Windows SDK zip file. When you unzip it there is a java script program called RemoveDeadTracks.js running this will do what you want

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