ITunes 9.0.2 duplicated (almost) my entire library

Installed iTunes 9.0.2. last night and lo and behold ... it's duplicated (almost) my entire music library. I went from around 18,000 items to just over 30,000
Looking via command line at the library doesn't reveal much of anything ... it somehow duplicated them without changing the creation or modification time of the files (was hoping that I could do a find my mtime but no such luck).
This is HORRIBLE. I can't use the "find duplicates" option within iTunes itself as it returns either ALL of my songs, or a lot of false positives (which I tell it to find exact duplicates) -- it tells me that songs with the same title are duplicates (even if they are actually different versions of the same song -- for example different mixes from original and/or compilation albums).
Has anyone else run into this? Does anyone have a working solution to find all these dupes? It's going to take me a long time to recover from this one with a library the size of what I have here I've just tried to do a find . -iname "* 1.m*" -- but unfortunately because of past library blunders some of the ___ 1.mp3 files are actually valid ones that shouldn't be deleted

Commiseration. I've got 9 Music folders now. My music portion of my library's gone from 63GB to 500GB. Everytime I set preferences to consolidate my music into one folder, it creates several new folders, including the 9 Automatically Add Folders, and the Music folders contained inside the Music folder. My Dupin application can remove them once they're all in one single folder, but not when they're spread out over so many folders. The iTunes 9 preference setting is unable to reliably predict where it's gonna place music and whether you're choosing the iTunes Media Folder or the Music Folder contained within. When you choose the Music folder within, it may start over, creating a whole new system within the music folder, or it may start dumping all of your music files loose into the iTunes Media Folder.

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