How to find good vs broken aliases?

I have created a smart folder to find all the aliases on my Mac. There are 1282 but I know about half, maybe more are not good - they are either broken OR (and this is worse) they take one to the wrong file-- often something really weird like a file or x-code buried deep within an applications.
Some are good.
But I don't want to check each of the 1282 individually - I won't live that long!
Since I have data on my Mac that dates from 1992 - including every eMail I ever received or wrote since 5 March 1996 --- I am sure many of the links have been broken as I have moved from OS 6.0.4 to 10.8.3 --- and via many Macs, too.
Someone said DiskWarrior (I have version 4.3 and will update to 4.4 but essentially NEVER use this program - it kinda scares me…) can find broken aliases.
Is there another way?
I suppose I could just delete all of them and start fresh - I am tempted to do that -- it should not cause any problems with any REAL files now should it?
Thanks for any comments or suggestions here!
Best regards,
Steve Schulte
Tuesday 26 March 2013

I just trashed all but 10 of the 1282 aliases and that's that!
Steve
Wednesday 27 March 2013

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