Duplicate title and files in iTunes

Problem: Duplicate titles in iTunes
I have tried to find asolution for my problem with duplicate titles and duplicate files in iTunes andiTunes media (witch is the folder that iTunes keeps music and other media in).
I have/need:
Over 1000 duplicate titles
Some of the duplicates with same file and Some of them with two different files (this makes it much more difficult)
Allot of duplicated titles with the same “added date”
All the files are organized by iTunes in iTunes media,
Playlists that I don’t want to delete
Genre, album and artist information I don’t want to delete
I use Mac
The possibilities I have found:
"Show duplicates" in the menu in iTunes (To much work when there is over 1000 duplicate songs) and (Allot of duplicated titles with the same “added date” so I cant sort them that way)
Tuneup,plug-in (I’m not sure if Tuneup just removes the duplicate titles or the file behind the duplicate titles. If it deletes the file I’m going to end up with allot of songs missing their files, in other word the tunes are gone)
Idupe,app (cantboth remove duplicate files and leave the files of the oneswitch are only duplicate titles iniTunes)
Removeall music from iTunes an thenimport it all again after moving all iTunes media into one folder with “bigmean folder machine” (I’m afraid this is going to affect my playlists andgenre, artist, album organization.
"Consolidate" in the iTunes menu (not quitesure what that does)
Sorry for my badspelling

You could try "Dupin". It costs $ 15, but there is a demo available for testing: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/dupin.php

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