Duplicate songs in my 4S but not in iTunes.

I have duplicate songs in my iPhone 4S. But everything is normal in library. I have unchecked the "Sync Music" and then tried to syncronize. I thought that this would delete all songs from my iPhone, so after that I would add my songs again and I would have solved the problem. Syncronization was completed but only the HALF of the songs were deleted. I couldn't delete the other half from my iPhone. I checked the "Sync Music" again and tried to sync again. Nothing has changed. I deleted my whole iTunes library and resynced again, nothing has changed.
In the end, I had to delete every single song one by one (I had like hundreds of songs.) with this "slide to reveal the delete button" move. Many people have asked about this problem in this support community but no stuff has brought a soluotion so far. This is sad, really sad.
Note: These music files can be seemed and played in iPhone but they doesn't exist in iTunes, you can only see the proof of their existence at the bottom of the device summary section in iTunes, I mean the size indicators.
Note 2: The proof I mentioned about is dissappearing temporarily when I check or uncheck the "Sync Music" checkbox. But after the syncronization it's coming back.
Note 3: The problem has occured this time (Yes, it happened few times before.) while I was texting to a friend during syncronization of new music files.
Sorry for the language by the way.
Utku
Istanbul, Turkey

Are these songs that you've purchased directly from your iPhone? If so, sometimes they remain on your iPhone no matter what you do, so when you transfer them to your library and then later sync them to your iPhone, you're left with two copies of each song.
If these are iTunes purchases made directly to the iPhone, connect to iTunes and click on the "Music" tab where you set your iPhone's sync settings. At the bottom of this window, below Playlists, Genres, etc. there is a category "Manually added items". See if you have songs in there -- if you do, select them all and click "Remove" then re-sync your iPhone.
If you don't see songs in "Manually added items", go to Settings/ General/ Usage/ Music/ All Music and tap "Edit" and then tap the "-" sign to erase any music left on the iPhone. Then for good measure to a Reset (press and hold the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons until the Apple logo disappears, then release).
Another option may be to sign out of your iTunes account on your iPhone, then re-sync your iPhone. As a final option, do a Restore of your iPhone (first by re-loading your backup, and as a very last resort Restore again but without loading your backup, which means starting completely over with your iPhone).

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