ITunes libraries all over the place with copies of songs

Hi
I have one itunes folder, but three itunes music folders. One on the first level and then one in each of my two previous libraries.
The problem is there is a lot of duplication between them - I don't know whether I consolidated and it created copies, but I don't have the space on my hard drive for all the copies/duplicates.
I started weeding them out one by one (and got rid of about 10gb of music), but soon lost the will to live. Is there an easy way to do ensure I only have one copy of each song??
Thanks

Hi, why don't you take itunes of your computer then download it again!
Or if you have windows xp you can use itunes on a differant user!
Or use a freinds Itunes!
good Luck!
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