Get rid of duplicated songs in iTunes playlists

Ive downloaded loads of songs in my iPod playlist and now im planning to transfer all of em to my PC.I figured out how to transfer songs but now i have another problem.Apparantly when u update songs in a playlist in iPod, if u add same files to the playlist more than once, they will be added once to the iPod itself and it wont update the same song more than once.However, in the playlist it will show it more than once and so u can have duplicated (or more!) songs in the playlist. I want to see the playlist without duplicated songs so that i could download ONLY the songs in my playlist to my PC and not all of them.
has neone got a clue how to do that!?
tnx
Sony Vaio   Windows XP  

You cannot edit the playlist while it is on the iPod.
You have to edit the plalist in iTunes and then resync it to the iPod.

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