How to identify duplicate images?

After recently upgrading to PSE5 I've noticed that my catalog contains various duplicate images. On closer inspection these are identical images (same file name) stored in different directories, so I'm happy that PSE is working correctly.
Can anyone suggest a method to identify these duplicate images, which will then help me to delete them?

Along the same line as Colin: If you look on Google for "finding duplicate photos" there are lots of software products, both free and shareware, which claim to find duplicates on a PC. I have not used any particular one, so I can not recommend any particular one.
You could find the duplicates, remove one set, open Organizer and do a Reconnect All Missing and then Remove From Organizer. This would clean up the Organizer. The hiccup would be if you had Photo 1 and SamePhoto 1 in Organizer with SamePhoto 1 tagged. When you delete the file and remove the missing link, you lose the tag and you would have to re-tag Photo 1.
Is there any pattern that all the duplicates are in the same folder (would be easy to remove the one folder) or do they seem to be scattered about?

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