ITunes 6 - cleaning out duplicates and triplicates?

Sorry if this has been covered before. I am using iTunes 6.0.4 (3) and I am still a newbie to the Mac OSX and iTunes. I am slightly irritated that all of the entries in my iTunes library are dublicates or triplicates. Is there any way I can change this without individually unchecking hundreds of files? Do I have to clear out the libraries and start again? All of the music files are being networked from a Windows XP Pro SP2 desktop. Thanks for any help...

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Jim

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