ITunes 7.5 music library problem

My libary is located in the Shared Documents folder on my main PC. During the upgrade to the most recent versopn of iTunes; it appears that my entire library was duplicated (from trackname.suffix to tracknumber trackname.suffix). This includes all iTunes store files (~500-600) plus all of my ripped-from-CD-mp3s (~5000). So, my library doubled in size (yes, in each album folder the files are duped with a "1" appended to the extra file) and in iTunes I have two versions of each song. Besides manually deleting each "extra file"; does anyone have any better solutions to return my library to normal size? Thanks.

Hi I am using 7.0.2.16 and I have exactly the same problem and I can't fix it despite spending hours. I have re-added all my music to the library but it still doesn't appear in the library in iTunes. What seems odd is if I add any new tunes from CD then it works fine, it just won't display any of the old stuff.
I have read the suggestions on this thread but unfortunately I don't have a "previous iTunes library" folder to reinstate my older version of the library.
One other thing is that I seem to be able to add music to playlists but not the library!
All of this is a bit of a pain but the 3 iPods that are used on this machine still have all theirt music in tact so it's not the end of the world but another worry for me is that I don't seem to have any of my purchased music anywhere other than my iPods. :o((
Finally, when any of the iPods are plugged in, you can't the folder structure so you can't delete any songs. This will be a problem for me pretty soon as mine is very nearly full.
I hope that someone can help but I am seriously considering reinstalling an old version of itunes and starting again.
Help............!!!!

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