Duplicate Copies of Music Files (but only one in Library) HELP!

Hopefully, someone can help me out here!
I have a "missing" 13 gigs or so on my hard drive, and I was trying to figure out what the problem was.
I thought it might have something to do with my music b/c that is about what I have on my iPod......soooo, I went a did a search to see if I had the files in two places.
My search results (just did a search for all music on the computer) show that I have two of the exact same files for all my iTunes music...each in the exact same location.
In my iTunes, it just says I have one of each, though.
I tried deleting one of the duplicate files to see what would happen, but then the song wouldn't play (got the little !mark).
Has anyone else gone through this? (I've done searches, but I can't seem to find the answer)
I'd really like to get rid of any superfluous files!
Thanks in advance!
Mandalyn
Dell XPS m170 Windows XP

Hi, Mandalyn.
Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
I tried deleting one of the duplicate files to see what would happen, but then the song wouldn't play (got the little !mark).
I really hate answering a question with another question but ...
What happens when you restore that file and then delete the other file for the same song?

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