Why do duplicates occur in iTunes and how to avoid them

Why do duplicates occur in iTunes. I just moved my Library to a external hard drive to clear up space on my HD. Now I have dups. Sometime 3 of each song, sometimes 6 of each song. All together I ended up with more that 4,000 dups.
I have spend more time researching how to get rid of dups,( without manually taking them out of my itunes library), that the time it took to just manually remove them. I did download and intall the icorraldupes script, but that only fines the dups. If you delete them from the dup playlist they are still in the Library. A good script for reference, though. So, how do I avoid dups in the future? I just finished cleaning up my Libary of all dups. I figured it must have been something I did and would not want to repeat it again. I would hate to think that this is just some kind of bug or quirk within the iTunes program. If so I would not want to trust my collection of music in iTunes without burning up backups all the time.

Hopefully some MAC tech expert with iTunes can clear this up for us. After reading past post about this subject, before I posted mine today, I really didn't get a answer. Maybe I missed something? Maybe these dups happen differently in OS operating systems, verses Windows. If I don't get a answer here, I will call Apple and ask them. One way or the other I want to clear this up, because I don't want to open my itunes a few months down the line and find duplicates again.

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