Getting rid of music redundancies

When I imported all music files from various external drives into my new macbook pro, the result (due, I'm afraid, to a complete lack of organization on my part), was that almost every song has at least one copy, many have several. Is there a simple way to delete the redundancies, so that I have just one copy of each song? I'm trying to avoid going through the thousands of songs one by one and deleting by hand.
Any help would be most appreciated, thank you!
(I'm running iTunes 10 on OS 10.6.8)

Various utilities for doing this, including Dupin (see Dougscripts web site).
Be careful or you may end up deleting non-duplicates. Some albums have two tracks with same name (e.g., Neil Young's Freedom with 2 x Rockin' In The Free World) the only way to be sure is to manually check.

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