Duplicate songs in iTunes music

I have seen other items of discussion and tried doing as was suggested in the past on this. Part of my problem is that every time I restart my computer, iTunes adds duplicate listings for songs under the place where one clicks on the Music icon on the left. 
1. I tried Araxis Find Duplicate Files. Problem is it finds the files in folders. The problem with iTunes is that it lists duplicates and points to the same file.
2. I tried adding "Date Added" to the playlist view which wokred to separate the listings, but there is just one problem: it is impossible to know what you are deleting.
3. I searched for exact duplicates, but one thing that is unclear is whether it shows all the duplicates that match exactly and how to know the one that shows is the one you want to delete. The question I guess is, "Can I select all those that show in the exact duplicates window and delete them?"
It woud be nice if someone at Apple would write a very clear article on the matter that tells one what to expect. That being too much to ask, maybe someone here can give some clear instructions. I think the Exact Dups feature will work, but I just don't know what exactly I am being shown.

My music files were created long befor I had itunes, but I have been usinfitunes for about 10 months. I recently noticed that my music file has gone from about 3,500 tracks to almost 9,000 tracks the change being duplicates. itunes will identify the duplicates but does not have the capability to clean up the database.
getting rid of about 5,000 duplicates is going to be a giant task and before I do it I would like to know how it happened and be comfortable it won't happen again. I just checked my preferences and I have selected "keep ... music folder organized".
My music data base is on an external hard drive and part of a home network. Sometimes I have added music from various computers on the network. when I want to update the library on one of the other computers I have erased all music in the library and then added the music data base to the itunes on the computer attached to the external hard drive. Is that where the duplication takes place?
Help ...
epmdallas

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