Getting rid of duplicates in SoundTrack Pro library

Hello
I recently installed STP 2 over my previously installed STP, and have a problem with duplicate files in the library. The previous installation was lacking files, so I decided to installed all files again.
How should I proceed to weed out the duplicates? Should I try to fins duplicates by using some utility (recommendations?), or should I delete all files and reinstall install the sound files from the DVDs?
I presume I need to reindex again in both cases?
Also, were are the directories I need to work with located? (Previous STP directiories for library sound files and new ones?)
Cheers

Hmm, no reactions to my posting. But I may have the answer myself.
The Index file seems to have been corrupted. I tried to reindex the Apple Loops directory, but this did not help.
I the took out the directory from the indexing list, and added the Apple Loops for Sound Track Pro, where the problems seemed to be. I then reindexed.
Now I got back a lot of files. I was previously not aware of that files were missing. The duplicates seems to have been a misunderstanding on my part. Files in the Sound Track Pro browser and in the Finder now seems to match up.
The solution seems to have been to force STP to reindex the problematic sub directory.

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