When importing from external hard drive, creating double songs

I just used the add to library to add lot of songs from an external hard drive. They were in various formats. I-tunes created copies of many of them. This hard drive had 80g worth of music, it would take me forever to go through i-tunes and delete the duplicates.
Why did it do this only to some and how do I correct the problem?

No I tried both neither seems to be working on my system. I used Duplin version 2.5 because 2.6 requires Leopard and I am running tiger.
this is a mess, and I haven't done anything but import the files, I don't want to start setting up play list until I can figure out one of two things.
Why it did it in the first place, I could delete everything and reimport.
Or how to clean it up with doing it one track at a time.
Thanks

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