Songs showing up twice in Library

Hi,
I've just returned to iTunes after a few years using Media Player due to the iminent delivery of an iPhone. After installing iTunes onto my Windows XP computer it went through the process of creating a library from the My Music folder. I did not check the box to allow itunes to rearrange my music.
The library now shows most of the songs twice, with one of two copies of each song having an exclamation mark next to it and not playing if I click on it. There is still only one actual copy of each song on the computer.
As I have about 40GB of music, what is the easiest way to remove the duplicate listing in the library? I don't really want to spend a couple of days manually deleting each song. e.g. can I sort the library by songs with the exclamation mark and then highlight all of these and delete in one click?
Thanks for your help,
Brad.

Welcome to AD!
First thing I'd do if I were in this situation, is sort my music by Date Added.
Maybe the duplicates were added all on one day?
Go into List or Cover Flow view to do this, and right-click on a column header to add Date ADded, if it's not already showing.
This should group all the ! unfound songs together so you can delete them en masse.

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