It seems itunes is doubling the space for music?

I have copied 80g of music to itunes, but somehow it shows under "about this mac" that 150g of music is stored on HD. I have eliminated all double entries in itunes, no effect still.
Has anyone encountered a similar thing?
Thanks,

I believe this is the problem because I have noticed that when I delete a song from my iTunes it asks if you want to delete the song from the library or delete the song and move the file to the trash. When I choose delete the song and move the file to the trash, my original source file usually located in a folder in the User/Music folder is still present while there is a file with the same size in my trash. I can then empty the trash and still hold on to the original file. I may be wrong and there may be another reason for this, but because of the way this process works it leads me to believe that a file is duplicated in to the iTunes Library.

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