Duplicated songs showing & playing

Hi
Nearly all the songs in my itunes library are showing as duplicates in itunes, BUT not in Windows Explorer. Further, if I go through itunes deleting duplicates, when I delete last duplicated song in album, itunes crashes & the album is deleted.
I have tried phoning Apple, but as my ipod is out of warranty, my only option is to pay £25 which I am not prepared to do. Any ideas? It is driving me nuts, as when I play an album, all songs play twice in a row.
This has happened with all versions of itunes over last few months. Upgraded to 10.2.1.1 a couple of days ago. Same problem. As a result, I rarely use itunes....
Thanks

Thanks that really helped! My music is stored on my pc. Am I best off syncing it to the iphone to get the music back across - will that put everything back on or will I have to download anything?

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