How can I remove thousands of "file not found" songs efficiently?

I have thousands of "file not found" songs interwoven throughout my library.
Is there any fairly automated way to cull these dead songs without loosing all my playlists (which is the price of starting over)
In every case they are duplicates, so ideally I would like to cause the dead songs to refer to the duplicate (or similar) song it is next to.
I could delete them all by hand, but it would literally take days.
My playlists refer to many of these dead songs too, which is why I want to find an automated way to reference them over to similarly named duplicate songs.
Any tips of any kind are greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

Kay's link seems helpful, though if you don't like downloading scripts, you could alternateively:
1. Go to your Library
2. Go to Edit > Show Duplicate Songs
3. Erase every other song
This is the way I would do it, however you say that you have many songs you need to do. Hope this helped?
Josh

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