Old podcast track only appears in smartplaylist

I have an old podcast track that will only appear in a smartplaylist using the Podcast is true parameter. It's two years old and doesn't appear in any of the other menus on the left hand side. It's also in the iTunes Library.xml file, but directly editing that doesn't do any good, because that file gets regenerated from the binary file.
The actual file is long gone, just the listing in the index remains. Is there a way to remove that listing from the index? Thank you.

Okay, here's the solution.
I ran over to http://dougscripts.com/itunes/ and installed the Super Remove Dead Tracks script. I ran it and huzzah. It's all good now.
Thanks Doug.

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