Unidentifiable duplicates in catalog

I'm trying to help my mom who is having a problem with Photoshop Elements 9.
I think what she's done has been some mixture of accidental move, delete or restore of some photos via Windows Explorer - I'm actually not quite sure what she's done. I can see what Organizer has done but I don't know how to fix it.
What I can see is that some photos tagged as FAMILY or EUROPEAN TRIPS appear twice in Organizer thumbnail view. For example Organizer shows two entries in the catalog for an image called DSC1234.JPG.  One of these is tagged correctly and links to a correct file that actually exists (can be found via Windows Explorer in "D:\Photos\family pics\DSC1234.JPG").  The other has the identical filename, is unlinked, untagged, and marked as "?", and has a location of "D:\Photos\family holidays" which doesn't exist.
What's apparently happening is that Organizer is identifying the first DSC1234.JPG with the file on disk (correctly), but then doesn't realize the second file with the same name is a duplicate catalog entry - it thinks there should be a different photo with the same name on the hard disk that this catalog entry should be linked to, tries to find it, and (obviously) cannot.
What I need to do is find all unlinked/"missing" photos in the catalog that have the same names and details (same file really) as other photos that are linked and do exist. Those will be the duplicate entries and can safely be deleted from the catalog.
The problem is complicated by the fact she was in the middle of sorting out duplicates and so on (which is how this probably happened), so there could be unlinked files that really do need relinking. But we can't find or fix those because the relinker hits the first one that doesn't exist... and won't go on to look at other unlinked photos till it's checked every local and network drive for the first missing file first.
Judging by catalog size vs. number of photos on hard disk there are about 2300 photos that have duplicate catalog entries in this way. If anyone can help advise me how to fix this for her, I'd greatly appreciate the help.
Thanks!
Three apparent issues in Elements have also made it hard to solve this myself - I'd appreciate any tips:
The "auto relinker" tries to search every drive it can find out about. The computer it's on has 3 x 2 TB RAID hard drives with all our backups of everything for the entire family for 40 years, some 1.2 million files. So it takes forever. . How can one tell the auto relinker that if it can't find a photo in a given folder or its subfolder (with just 16,000 files!) not to keep looking through all other folders?  Any missing pictures are not going to be in places like "C:\WINDOWS" or "Z:\Old system backups" but it keeps wasting hours trying anyway.
The "reconnect missing files" dialog (when you click "BROWSE") has a list of files on the left. The columns are not resizeable and the filename column is just 5 characters wide. It's impossible to see the list of files that it's reporting as missing or to scroll down to a given filename in the list.  I get a list of 2000+ entries that all get displayed as "DSC1..." Can this be fixed, or does this make the dialog useless?
Is there a way to see filenames under the photos in Thumbnail view in Organizer?

I understand I can delete them and use "suggest stacks" to find similar images. But that doesn't really solve the problem.
What I need is to identify images where the catalog contains two entries, both with the same filename. Identifying photos with question marks is a huge job as it looks like there are over 2000 images with duplicate entries, and suggesting stacks is also a concern since the suggestions would still need manual checking one by one - the correct catalog entries will contain very similar ones as well.
What I need is a way to identify that there are 2 catalog entries for a photo named DCS1234, one of which is unlinked (which will be an incorrect catalog entry needing deletion), and the other 2300 or so photos where this happens, then delete these problem entries. Is there a way to automate this?

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