ITunes 10.7 copies podcasts twice

My computer installed iTunes 10.7 this morning and proceded to copy my library into the new version. It copied most, but not all, of my podcasts twice. In most cases, it left one episode out of one of the copies. If I try to remove one copy of a podcast to the trash, both are transfered. If I move only one out of trash and then re-copy it to the Library, both copies come back, in one case with 22 episodes in one copy and 4 in the other (there are 13 episodes, each copied twice for a total of 26). Has anyone else seen this? What can I do to sort it out?
My computer is an iMac running OS 10.6.8.
Thanks to anyone who can help.

Hi folks--I've solved it myself. I opened the library, copied one set of the files for each podcast (the original ones, not the ones created during the update) to an external hard drive, erased everything from iTunes, then re-copied each podcast from the external hard drive again. This has taken all afternoon, though, and I don't have that big a podcast collection. If anyone has a faster method, I'd love to hear about it. Thanks!

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