How do you remove all the gray exclamation icon songs from the Library?

I've been burning all my CD's to an external hard drive. At some point the location of my iTunes Library switched from the external drive to the local drive. (Any idea why that would happen?) So about half the CD's were imported the the local drive.
So I copied all the music folders from the local drive to the external drive and then deleted the extra copies from the local drive. Now the problem is that those songs are showing up twice in the library! Each song has one listing that's a working version and a second listing with a grey exclamation icon next to, saying it can't locate the song.
How can I delete every song in the library that has the gray exclamation icon?
Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I've been burning all my CD's to an external hard
drive. At some point the location of my iTunes
Library switched from the external drive to the local
drive. (Any idea why that would happen?) So about
half the CD's were imported the the local drive.
So I copied all the music folders from the local
drive to the external drive and then deleted the
extra copies from the local drive. Now the problem
is that those songs are showing up twice in the
library! Each song has one listing that's a working
version and a second listing with a grey exclamation
icon next to, saying it can't locate the song.
How can I delete every song in the library that has
the gray exclamation icon?
Mac OS X (10.3.9)
you'll have to just left click and remove them

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