Importing old library, duplicates songs

Hi. I had to re-new my hard drive and re-install i-Tunes. When I import my old library (from the old drive) i-Tunes is duplicating all the songs i.e one song appears twice. When I delete the whole library and try the process again, the same song then appear three times! I have checked all my preferences and disabled 'copy songs to i-tunes folder. Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance,
Graeme

Hi,
I am having the same problem! I have 2 of every song. Did you figure out how to remove the copies without going through thousands of songs?

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