Song deleted from hard drive but still on itunes?

I recently deleted a folder full of duplicate songs that were intended to be backups so I could save space. Now, itunes still lists those files but it puts little exclamation points next to the song to tell me the original file can't be found.
Here is the exact message:
"The song 'x' could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?"
No! I don't want it found! But how do I remove the ghost file from itunes so I don't have all those duplicates??

If you want to get rid of tracks with exclamation marks, you can do it by a crafty use of playlists:
Using a playlist to collect dead tracks.
Create new regular playlist – Playlist1
Select whole library and drag to Playlist1
Create new Smart Playlist with the rule: Playlist is not Playlist1
This playlist should contain all the dead tracks
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5696793#5696793
Or Robert Jacobson has a script to do it:
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/

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Kimo@13 wrote:
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