Multiple copies of same songs in itunes

i-tunes is showing multiple copies of the same songs in the library....any ideas why? Not all songs have multiple copies, which is even stranger!
Also, other than working through manually and deleting the duplicates (2,500!), is there a way I can delete them with a simple command?
The song files are held on an external drive, to free up space on the c.
Any ideas.....?
  Windows XP Pro  

First in iTunes select the main library list on the left side in the source list. Now goto Edit menu and select "Show DUplicate songs".
Now if you have ! marks beside songs, then these songs are dead/broken links and there are scripts you can run to auto remove them. SOmetimes the mark will not show til you try to play it.
If theres no marks, It'll be hard. These alot of scripts to remove duplicates in the Mac version of iTunes but none I personally know of for the windows version, you have to manually go thru it all.
Rictclick each dup and hit "Get Info" to see there location, you may have multiple copys of the same song in different locations. The Location of the songs will be listed on the summery tab.

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