I tried to copy my itunes library to new drive now I'm in trouble

I bought a new 1tb internal drive and installed it. I wanted a dedicated spot for a 500 gig music library and a place for dedicated backup. The man at micro center told me in order to move the library from the 1tb lacie external drive to the new drive that i should just open both drives in finder then drag the itunes folder from the lacie to the new drive. Once they were copied to the new internal drive i thought everything was fine.. the songs played..... until I turned off the lacie, then suddenly I got the question marks by the songs when i tried to play them. Here's just one of the places I screwed up! I next decided to drag the itunes music folder from the lacie into the open itunes window. What I got was a doubling of all the songs. Then I decided I would just start over again and erase the new drive and import the library again, but this time from the lacie with carbon copy cloner. When I opened I tunes after this was done and reset the music folder pathway to the new drive I still had all the songs doubled. Here's where it gets worse, I decided to return the pathway to the music folder back to the lacie, where I also chose to consolidate the library. SO, what I have is an itunes that says i have two of everything. I checked the actual itunes folder on the the lacie and it looks like in reality i do have only one of each song. So in fact it is sort of an illusion that i have a doubled library. What do i do now, how can i get rid of all the dups and straighten this whole mess out before it gets worse??

this didn't work..... the "add to library" just put more songs in an already overcrowded itunes window. You know what is weird is that I use the get info on the music folder on the external drive and it doesn't say that there are more gigs of music than before ..but in the itunes window at the bottom where you see the size of your library it says the size is double what the "get info" on the drive says.
I've wiped the new internal drive clean a few times since last night and re-tried different suggestions that folks here on discussions have given me and I still wind up with dups. This morning i tried this> wipe clean > reformat drive >open itunes with the option key down > chose "new library"> chose " new internal drive for location of library> went into preferences to advanced and chose my new drive and the new itunes as the pathway> opened my lacie drive and dragged the itunes music folder to the open itunes window on the left hand side at the top and started it immediately started to import songs. Then i checked some of the albums that were imported and yet again the duplicates were there ...only this time when i tried to play them i got play from each dup whereas before one would play and the other would give me the "not found " message [you know the sort of exclamation point thingy]. So this does mean that it is indexing or pointing to both drives, at least while the import is taking place i guess. SO HOW DO I GET RID OF THESE DUPS WITHOUT GOING THROUGH EACH ALBUM ON EACH DRIVE ?

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