Elegant solution for converting a mixed AAC/MP3 playlist to all MP3s?

Does anyone have an elegant solution (AppleScript?) for taking a playlist containing a mix of unprotected AAC and MP3 files, converting only the AAC files into MP3 files, and preserving the order in the playlist? It seems to be a terribly tedious job to locate each of the newly created MP3s individually and placing them in order in the playlist. Looking for suggestions. Thanks.

Just had to say thanks for waking my mind up. I'm having troubles in converting over 7,000 MP3s to AACs. I decided to convet everything to the smaller 128kbps AAC meanwhile cleaning everything up. Well, the batch conversion stopped half way through and now I've got duplicats of a ton of stuff in both MP3 and AAC. I had no idea where it stopped on the MP3 list. I completely forgot about sorting by dates. Now, hopefully, I can figure out where it stopped and start up the converting from there rather than starting over and converting everything from the beginning. Got my fingers crossed.
Since I have a bunch of duplicates, I know I can sort these by "showing duplicates". However, is there any to tell it to delete all dups? It'll just take a long time going through and manually erasing. Any tips would be great.

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