Duplicate icons in Launchpad

Newly upgraded to Lion 2 days ago.
Launchpad shos 3 Pages icons, 3 Keynote icons and 2 Numbers icons. None of the icons have delete buttons. How can I get rid of the duplicates?
I can get the icons to 'wiggle', but there is nothing to delete them with.

Try using spotlight to find all instances of the app.
Delete all instances (even if there is only one) of the app.
Recover one instance from trash.
This worked just fine for me on my macbook pro using Lion.

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