Duplicate songs in Itunes after Icloud setup.

Once I subscribed to Itunes Match and it did a sync in Icloud, I found many duplicates in Itunes after that. They are identical. It even loaded two song files on the drive. If I try to delete one, it asks if I want to delete the song from Icloud too. If I say no, it just grays out the song but leaves it in Itunes. If I say yes then it will perminatlly delete them from Icloud too. Maybe just another way Apple gets you to keep puchasing the same songs over and over.
Anybody know of a way to get rid of duplicates and retian what I purchased in Icloud?

There is my DeDuper script for automatically removing duplicate copies but keeping one remaining copy of each set. This can preserve ratings, play counts, playlist membership, etc. which are lost in a manual clean up. Please take note of the warning tobackup your library before deduping. See this thread for background on deduping and the script.
Depending on how you created the duplictates it may be possible to sort the exact duplicates display on date added and remove the duplicates added today, but there is a danger that you could have logical duplicates, in which case deleting the files could also remove your originals, or physical duplicates, in which case not deleting the files leaves the hard drive cluttered with copies. Read a bit of the thread before you decide.
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